Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We're honoring and defending females of all species for International Women’s Month! Join our inspiring and thought-provoking interview hosted by our Farmed Animal Campaign Specialist, Lia Wilbourn, featuring two visionary women advocates for animals who explore how movements for animal freedom, food justice, and systemic transformation are deeply interconnected, and how we can build stronger cross-movement solidarity rooted in empathy, accountability, and shared liberation.
Speakers:
Yvette Baker (she/her), Executive Director of APEX Advocacy
Yvette is a lifelong social justice advocate, writer, educator, movement organizer, social critic, and proud rat lady. She's worked with various animal rights organizations as an educator and grassroots organizer, emphasizing principles of collective liberation and cross-movement solidarity. Through an Afro-Indigenous lens, her work is rooted in a shared accountability to all relations. She builds with comrades, beyond-human kin, and is the star dancer of every music video playing in her head.
Connect with Yvette at APEX Advocacy: apexadvocacy.org
Ashley Capps (she/her), Founder of Mothers Against Dairy
Ashley Capps received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has published a book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields. She works as Director of Research & Communications for the food and climate justice non-profit A Well-Fed World. She also founded and directs the campaign Mothers Against Dairy and co-edited THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE, an animal poetry anthology out this April. She lives in Asheville, NC, where she is often looking for rocks and sometimes working on a second book of poems.
Connect with Ashley at Mothers Against Dairy: mothersagainstdairy.org
Discover our International Women's Month program with full speaker bios at: idausa.org/WomensMonth
Support our advocacy for veganism and farmed animals: idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/donate-to-protect-farmed-animals-across-the-globe
We're honoring and defending females of all species for International Women’s Month! Join our inspiring and thought-provoking interview hosted by our Farmed Animal Campaign Specialist, Lia Wilbourn, featuring two visionary women advocates for animals who explore how movements for animal freedom, food justice, and systemic transformation are deeply interconnected, and how we can build stronger cross-movement solidarity rooted in empathy, accountability, and shared liberation.
Speakers:
Yvette Baker (she/her), Executive Director of APEX Advocacy
Yvette is a lifelong social justice advocate, writer, educator, movement organizer, social critic, and proud rat lady. She's worked with various animal rights organizations as an educator and grassroots organizer, emphasizing principles of collective liberation and cross-movement solidarity. Through an Afro-Indigenous lens, her work is rooted in a shared accountability to all relations. She builds with comrades, beyond-human kin, and is the star dancer of every music video playing in her head.
Connect with Yvette at APEX Advocacy: apexadvocacy.org
Ashley Capps (she/her), Founder of Mothers Against Dairy
Ashley Capps received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has published a book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields. She works as Director of Research & Communications for the food and climate justice non-profit A Well-Fed World. She also founded and directs the campaign Mothers Against Dairy and co-edited THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE, an animal poetry anthology out this April. She lives in Asheville, NC, where she is often looking for rocks and sometimes working on a second book of poems.
Connect with Ashley at Mothers Against Dairy: mothersagainstdairy.org
Discover our International Women's Month program with full speaker bios at: idausa.org/WomensMonth
Support our advocacy for veganism and farmed animals: idausa.org/campaign/farmed-animal/donate-to-protect-farmed-animals-across-the-globe
