Founder & Director

Internationally known for her work in animal ethics, Professor Emeritus Dr. Lisa Kemmerer retired in 2020 to become a full-time activist as founder and director of Tapestry. Always an anymal liberationist, Dr. Kemmerer is also an artivist (activist artist), both with poetry and painting. Kemmerer also continues to work with local shelters and wildlife rehabilitation facilities and she created The Hospitality Challenge, which has exponentially increased vegan offerings in target eateries. The Hospitality Challenge leverages human interests to help anymals, marginalized, people, and the planet, by putting marked, priced vegan options on menus. Whatever else she is doing, what matters most to Dr. Kemmerer is empathy and kindness, building greater justice, and helping to bring sustainability and peace to anymals, people, and the planet.

For more on Dr. Kemmerer, please visit her website, https://www.lisakemmerer.com/

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