Speaker: Jasmin Singer

Compassion Unlocks Identity

"What I want to stand for is compassion for myself first, and then for all those other individuals, humans and non humans whom we so easily cast aside. The ones we marginalize, the ones we choose not to see, the ones we don't call beautiful." -Jasmin Singer from her TED talk "Compassion Unlocks Identity"

Jasmin Singer is the co-founder and co-host of Our Hen House, Inc, a non-profit multimedia hub that aspires to change the world for animals, as well as the Senior Editor for the award-winning VegNews Magazine, the world's leading vegan media brand. She is passionate about mainstreaming veganism and helping people achieve better health while living in alignment with their values. Bullied through childhood and her young adult years for being overweight, Singer's life dramatically changed when she began to take self-care seriously. Her weight dropped by 100 pounds, and the world that had overlooked her before suddenly began to take notice. The unsettling social implications of this fueled a deeper inquiry into her relationship with herself -- for the first time on her own terms. Discovering a self-compassion that transcended labels and judgments soon flung open the door to compassion for all living beings. There was no looking back. 

Today Jasmin is author of the acclaimed memoir, "Always Too Much and Never Enough", and the cohost of the Webby-recognized "Our Hen House" podcast. Online and on screen she appears in the "Teaching Jasmin How to Cook Vegan" podcast, the award-winning documentaries Vegucated and The Ghosts In Our Machine, and she has also been featured on the Dr. Oz Show and HuffPo Live. She speaks regularly across the country and beyond its borders on veganism and animal activism.

Jasmin's invitation to the world is for each person to step up and be a better version of themselves, an invitation she vibrantly embraces herself -- with a potent mixture of honesty, humor, grit and empathy. She recently moved to Northern California from NYC, and is the companion human to a sweet pit bull named Rose and a cute kitty called Stella.

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