About SuperVegan

Jason Atkins was born and raised in California in addition to growing up in the south and Europe before making New York City his home in 2000.

A vegan since 1999, this aesthetic Aquarian is full of passion for cruelty free fashion & beauty. He extols all the virtues of vegan living and the wealth of benefits it bestows on its adherents and the planet.

Susie moved to NYC from Los Angeles in 2005 to attend journalism school at Columbia. Upon graduating in '06, she moved to Brooklyn and began her lucrative career as a freelance writer, editor, illustrator, blogger, and really anything else you can think of that you'd like to pay her to do, especially if it involves fresh tiramisu cupcakes. She's a longtime veg, first time vegan. And she's really serious about those cupcakes.

Jason is responsible for most of the design and front-end code on the site, and more than a little of the content.

Jason makes music with The Glass Bees and Pirate Satellite. He's also a visual artist, and blogs mostly in pictures at Gas, Water, Nothing.

You can keep tabs on all of Jason's various rackets at JasonDas.com.

Patrick writes about food and restaurants for SuperVegan. He is an accomplished vegan cook and widely-regarded expert of New York City's vegetarian restaurants (by his friends) - his March '06 article in Satya magazine profiling some of the city's best veggie bets is still widely referenced and proudly displayed by restaurants in their windows.

Since tagging along with his college activist sister at the age of 12 to campaign against sweatshops, Patrick has organized scores of rallies, trainings, and conferences in the animal rights, human rights, and environmental movements.

When not writing for SuperVegan (or eating, cooking, or sleeping), he works to fight animal cruelty as the New York state director for The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization.

In his prior lives, he worked at a corporate PR firm where he handled media for the City of New York's animal rescue efforts through the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and the Chinatown neighborhood through The September 11th Fund's "Explore Chinatown" campaign, and was the executive director of the Student Animal Rights Alliance, a field organizer for Amnesty International, and a media assistant for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

He has also served as a lead organizer for the Animal Defense League and Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, student-area coordinator for Amnesty International, and youth advisory board member of the Center for Environmental Citizenship (now part of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund).

Patrick firmly believes a meal is not complete unless it has at least three courses.

Olivia, SuperVegan Editor-at-Large, is a proud survivor of the CUNY Hunter College experience and ocassionally takes classes at The Art Students League.

Olivia enjoys daydreaming, eating, drawing, reading graphic novels and how-to books, writing, crafting, baking birthday cakes, making cards for friends, and dancing at house parties. She is also a lover of squirrels. Olivia lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with her partner Jessica and their kooky cats: Linus Harper, Lola Dixie, Lucinda and her kitten Marty.

Olivia became vegan in 2002 after reading Why Vegan and believes that getting information and a good, simple homemade vegan meal to the entire world is the path to animal liberation.

As our Technical Director, Laura is responsible for most of the junk under the hood at SuperVegan: PHP, MySQL, etc.

Laura lives in the East Village with her two cats, Lucifer and Angel. Laura also designed the website for the band PIG, helps with Writercon, and runs All About Spike. Laura loves to travel and particularly enjoys live music, sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and wandering around alone in big cities.

Laura went vegan at age thirteen and occasionally forgets that the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet.

When Fritz, her childhood cat, got sick, it took just one well-placed thermometer for Roseann to realize that a career as a vet was not in the cards. So she became an editor and a writer, working on staff for a couple of highfalutin women's magazines before coming to her senses and going back to freelancing.

Roseann has volunteered with the ASPCA, Animal Care & Control of New York City, and some other small shelters. She still works for big consumer magazines, but only so she can keep her cats, Mr. T and Coconut, and the strays in her neighborhood in kibble.

What she's most enjoyed doing is teaching herself to cook and writing and editing for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and The Humane Society of the United States. She’d like to do more of that and less of the soul-sucking stuff, please. She is also an assistant organizer of the VegOut Meetup Group.

April Salazar grew up in Fontana, California and Jersey City, New Jersey, but has lived in New York since 1994. She became a vegetarian when she was nine and a vegan when she was thirteen, and as a teenager she used to fantasize that this would give her cred with River Phoenix. She now fantasizes that it will give her cred with Joaquin.

She takes a great deal of pride in her kitchen and in her spare time enjoys cooking, dancing, hanging out with friends, and Googling ex-boyfriends.

Her hero is Pamela Anderson.

Anne went veg while growing up in rural Michigan (credit goes to her mom, whose father was a butcher--offering an unwelcome intimacy with the realities of meat production). See photo at right for a glimpse into her glamorous past.

She is now a long-time vegan who lives in Brooklyn and directs publicity for The New Press.

In the not-so-distant past, Anne worked with Laura Leslie, Jason Das, and Olivia Lane at Lantern Books and will probably end up working with Patrick Kwan one day too (one can only hope).

Hi, I'm Andrea and I just can't get on board with the whole "write your bio in third person" thing. I'm writing it. You know I'm writing it. So why should I refer to myself as "she?" It's creepy in a way I'm just not comfortable with. Something else that doesn't sit well is my mom's insistence that my vegetarianism was inspired by the 1991 Billy Crystal/Norman The Cow vehicle City Slickers. If anything, that movie helped solidify my theory (at the tender age of 14) that middle-aged men aren't funny, that I should avoid, if at all possible, ever becoming one and that Jake Gyllenhaal is nice to look at in the face. I've cultivated two out of the three beliefs and am currently a single Vegan lady with occasional (read: constant) authority issues and a silver Prius. Hey fellas! Find out more about Andrea at ihateselfpromotion.com --see, that was weird.