Melanie Joy

Melanie Joy, PhD., is a social psychologist, professor, and author. She teaches psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the leading researcher on carnism, the ideology of meat production and consumption. She is the eighth recipient of the Ahimsa Award — previously given to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela — for her work on global nonviolence. She also received the Peter Singer Prize and the Empty Cages Prize for efforts to develop strategies reducing the suffering of animals.