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President and Co-Founder

Gene Baur

Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur with Meg cow

Gene Baur has been hailed as “the conscience of the food movement” by Time magazine. Since the mid-1980s, he has traveled extensively, campaigning to raise awareness about the abuses of industrialized factory farming and our system of cheap food production.

A pioneer in the field of undercover investigations and farm animal rescue, Gene has visited hundreds of farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses, documenting the deplorable conditions. His pictures and videos exposing factory farming cruelties have aired nationally and internationally, educating millions about the plight of modern farm animals, and his rescue work inspired an international farm sanctuary movement.

Gene has also testified in courts and before local, state, and federal legislative bodies, advocating for better conditions for farm animals. He played a key role in the first-ever cruelty conviction at a U.S. stockyard and enacting the first U.S. laws to prohibit cruel farming systems. His work has been covered by major media organizations, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, NPR and the BBC. Gene has published two bestsellers, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food (Simon and Schuster, 2008) and Living the Farm Sanctuary Life (Rodale, 2015), which he co-authored with Forks Over Knives author Gene Stone. Through his ongoing writing, activism, and speaking engagements, Gene continues working to expose the abuses of factory farming and to advocate for a just and sustainable plant based food system. Gene has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from California State University, Northridge and a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University.

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Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur with Meg cow

Board of Directors

Robert Procaccianti

Robert Procaccianti

Board Chair

Sharon C. Lincoln

Sharon C. Lincoln

Vice Chair and Governance Committee Co-Chair

Sepi Sepasi

Sepi Sepasi

Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair

Farm Sanctuary Board Member Sandee Ting

Sandee Ting Simshauser

Secretary and Governance Committee Co-Chair

Arne Emerson

Arne Emerson

Land Use and Capital Improvements Board Liaison

Caryn Ginsberg

Caryn Ginsberg

Advocacy and Education Programs Committee Chair

Sarah Lyu

Sarah Lyu

Development Committee Chair

Miyoko Schinner

Miyoko Schinner

Rescue and Sanctuary Board Liaison

Gene Baur speaking.

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