Vegan International Board Members
Sharon Leontine Wallenberg
Founder and President of Vegan International has attended and participated in UN World Health Organization Conferences, UN Non-Governmental Organization Conferences, and is an Author and Publisher.
Shanti Golden
Shanti is a Fine Art Photographer. She has been a vegan for 35 years, is a Special Education Teacher, who has taught both in New York and Florida public schools.
Vegan International Advisory Board
Dr Nandita Shah, M.D.
India, is an Author, Founder of SHARAN to help people connect with animals and nature to heal themselves and the planet.
Nassim Nobari
She is the Agriculture Expert. She is a sustainable Veganic Agriculture expert, co-founder of Seed the Commons and main organizer of the People’s Harvest Forum, has worked with community programs in Switzerland and the United States as a Social Justice and Food Activist, strives to build a food system that works for farmers and consumers, and to remove unhealthful dairy milk from school lunch programs.
Robert Grillo
is the Founder of ‘Free From Harm’ to advocate for animals exploited by animal agriculture. His book, “Farm To Fable”, exposes how people are conditioned to accept mass animal consumption. “There is no world peace without justice for everyone, not just those of a certain species.”
Robert Cheeke
is a Vegan Athlete, Body Building Champion, Best- Selling Author who tours all over the world talking about his transformation from a skinny farm kid to a Champion Vegan Body builder.
Anita Krajnc Ph.D.
Canada, is the Founder of Toronto Pig Save which has evolved into the world’s largest and fastest growing grass roots Save Movement, and a worldwide Plant Based Treaty movement. Anita and others offered water and comfort to pigs on slaughter trucks and was jailed as a criminal. Worldwide outrage her release.
Victor Fodeke, Ph.D.
Nigeria, former Technical Advisor on Climate Change for the African Union Commission, the Director General of the African Clean Energy Summit and African Climate Solutions Centre. Victor is sensitive to the plight of the voiceless in ‘VoicelessOnes’.
Budjargal Byambaa
Mongolia, is a raw vegan and ultradistance runner covering extreme distances over several days at impressive speeds, setting course records, and won the 10-day Sri Chinmoy race, the Icarus Florida 6-day race, the Xiamen 6 day race and holds the National record for 24 hour running, among others.
Krishna Murari Gautam
Nepal, Founder of Aging Nepal, a UN ECOSOC NGO, has over 30 years of experience in water management, irrigation, and socio-economic aspects of rural development projects in India, Nepal, and China, and created a ‘No Kill Zone’ in Kathmandu. ‘There are many bodies – human, animal, insect – but one life.’
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
author of the “China Study” called the “Grand Prix of Epidemiology” by The New York Times. His impact includes involvement in education, public policy, and laboratory research, with a focus on the association between diet and disease.
Neal Barnard, M.D.
Founder of Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Medicine George Washington University, Researcher at the National Institutes of Health, Author of books on Nutrition and Health, Editor, Nutrition Guide for Clinicians.
Gene Baur
is Co Founder, President of Farm Sanctuary, has a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University, is a Faculty Member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an Author, and “the conscience of the food movement” by TIME magazine.
Lawrence H. Kushi, Sc. D.
Nutrition and Cancer Epidemiologist, served on Committees for the National Institutes of Health, American Institute for Cancer Research, World Cancer Research Fund, and leads the NCI Cancer Research Network.
Michael Klaper, M.D.
was Nutrition Advisor to NASA’s Space Colonists programs, was on the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Students Association, advocates food and lifestyle choices. His book advocates using plant-based medicine to arrest and reverse disease.
