Founder & Director

Professor Emeritus Dr. Lisa Kemmerer is internationally known for her work as a philosopher-activist and ecofeminist in the areas of intersectional justice, religion and animals, environmental ethics, and animal ethics. Dr. Kemmerer founded and works at Tapestry to promote compassion, peace, and justice through research, writing, and public speaking.

For more on Dr. Kemmerer, please visit her website (https://www.lisakemmerer.com/); to learn more about her work, see her publications pages on her website.

Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur

“Kemmerer has three qualifications that put her in a class of one: a decades-long record of groundbreaking research, a decades-long record of on-the-ground animal advocacy, and a tested commitment . . . [to] forming relationships within a variety of religious traditions.”

Matthew Halteman,
Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Calvin University

Radio Populare in Italy

“Lisa Kemmerer is such a clear thinker on issues concerning the treatment of animals in society.”

Hope Ferdowsian
MD, MPH, Founder of Phoenix Zones Initiative

“The most powerful soft-spoken speaker I have ever heard.“

From the audience, Helena Montana