This month Juliana speaks with Andrew Pershing, VP for Science at Climate Central (@climatecentraldotorg), for a special Earth Month episode on how to use science to create climate conversation, green technology, and coral reefs. Conversations With Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com Climate Central uses science, big data, and technology to generate thousands of local storylines and compelling visuals that make climate change personal and show what can be done about it. They address climate science, sea level rise, extreme weather, energy, and related topics. They collaborate widely with TV meteorologists, journalists, and other respected voices to reach audiences across diverse geographies and beliefs. ⁠#climatecentral ⁠⁠#climatechange⁠⁠ ⁠⁠#journalism ⁠#science #weather ⁠⁠#windturbine #podcast⁠ ⁠⁠#nycwriters⁠⁠ ⁠⁠#animals ⁠⁠#julianaroth⁠⁠ ⁠⁠#greentechnology ⁠ Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU.⁠

This month Juliana speaks with Myth Monsters podcast on big foot, the hero's journey, and getting curious about monsters. Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com Myth Monsters podcast is a bite sized look into the monsters of global folklore and mythology with Erin - a massive mythology nerd! Jump in and learn about your favourite monsters from Gorgons to Kelpies, to Wendigos to Bigfoot every Thursday. 1# Mythology Podcast on Goodpods since February 2023! #animals⁠ ⁠#monsters⁠ ⁠#sasquatchsunsent⁠ ⁠#bigfoot⁠ ⁠#myth⁠ ⁠#mythmonsterspodcast⁠ ⁠#ukpodcast ⁠#nycwriters⁠ ⁠#fantastical⁠ ⁠#julianaroth⁠ ⁠#greekmyth Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU. Get in touch: www.julianaroth.com

This month Juliana speaks with author Gina Chung on her new story collection, Green Frog, which explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival. Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com #vegan #animals #grief #shortstories #fiction #memoir #ginachung #koreanfolktales #nycwriters #fantastical #julianaroth #podcast Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU. Get in touch: www.julianaroth.com

This month Juliana speaks with nonfiction author E.B. Bartels on her journey through her profound connection with animals and the grief that accompanies the loss of a pet, motherhood, and healing rituals. Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com #vegan #animals #grief #ritual #motherhood #memoir #ebbartels #pets #bostonwriters #climateoptimism #julianaroth #podcast Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU. Get in touch: www.julianaroth.com

In this episode of Conversations With Animals, Juliana is joined by Macarena Montes Franceschini who is an attorney with a Ph.D. in Law from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She has been a visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a Rights Research Fellow at the Brooks McCormick Jr Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, where she is currently a Visiting Fellow. She is also a board member of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, editor of the journal Law, Ethics and Philosophy (LEAP), a member of the Editorial Committee of the Chilean Journal of Animal Law, and the treasurer of the Great Ape Project – Spain. She has written several articles on nonhuman animal personhood, animal rights, and animal law and a book titled Animal Law in Chile. Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com #vegan #animals #intersectionality #climate #harvardlaw #animalrights #macarenamontesfranceschini #greatape #chile #climateoptimism #julianaroth #podcast Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU. Get in touch: www.julianaroth.com

For the premiere of Season 3 of Conversations With Animals, Juliana is joined by Isaias Hernandez (@queerbrownvegan ) whose independent web series, Sustainable Jobs and Teaching Climate Together, are just one of the many ways he brings intersectional environmental education to international audiences. He's presented at Billie Eilish’s Overheated Summit and has been featured in Vogue, New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. Learn more about Queer Brown Vegan: queerbrownvegan.com Conversations with Animals is a monthly conversation hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with animal lives. Subscribe here: animal.julianaroth.com #vegan #animals #intersectionality #climate #queerbrownvegan #isaiashernandez #queerecology #climateoptimism #julianaroth #podcast Juliana is a writer, professor, filmmaker, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. A 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction, she currently teaches writing at NYU.

In the this bonus episode celebrating the end of Season 2, Juliana is joined by two students studying Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter: Natasha Townley and Natasha Matsaert, who in addition to their studies are organizing an event in Bristol as part of National Animal Rights Day. They discuss the ethics of pet ownership, making animal storytelling more open, intersectionality in justice, and what it takes to organize international advocacy campaigns. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Natasha Townley is a master's student, currently studying Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter. This course is designed to consider the ways humans and non-humans think about and relate to one another. As part of this course, she has covered varied topics such as compassionate conservation, nonhuman thanatology, nonhuman culture, and animal criminology. Many of her essays have focussed on farming environments, including a literature-based review of suffering in pig-farms and first-hand research into how we might find alternatives to slaughter for ex-dairy cows.    Townley has always had a great love of animals, growing up in a vegetarian household and becoming vegan nearly six years ago. She has since spent several years working in animal rescue shelters as a care assistant, looking after the day-to-day needs of the animals, before deciding to study Anthrozoology with the hope she could help to improve the lives of animals more widely.  Anthrozoology has led Townley to meet many interesting and inspiring people, and she is now helping to organise Bristol's first National Animal Rights Day event with Our Planet. Theirs Too. She is excited to be a part of this and looks forward to seeing where else Anthrozoology might take her. Natasha Matsaert is a Masters student studying Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter, where she is currently carrying out research on the breastfeeding experiences of ‘mothers against dairy’ and the memorialisation of wildlife road fatalities. She is passionate about drawing attention to ‘ungrievable’ nonhuman lives through an ecofeminist and intersectional lens and communicating her research through (visual) storytelling. As an ethical vegan, her work is situated in the context of scholarly activism. Upon graduating from her masters, she hopes to utilise her skills in research and communication within an animal rights organisation. Matsaert is currently organising Bristol’s National Animal Rights Day (NARD) event, which is a memorial ceremony for the billions of animals killed at human hands each year. Drawing from her research on ‘roadkill’ memorials, Natasha has been planning a creative writing workshop to story the lives of the animals being remembered at the NARD event. She hopes that this event will make these lives visible as worthy of mourning and thus encourage positive action from viewers.  ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

In the final episode of Season 2, Laura Lee Cascada of The Every Animal Project and Campaigns Director at the Better Food Foundation joins Juliana to discuss her journey as an animal advocate, including her recent exposé of the Kanaloa Octopus Farm in her home of Hawaii, leading to a temporary shutdown. They discuss raising awareness for the ocean through mermaiding and co-habitating with a pig. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Laura Lee Cascada is a land-locked mermaid making waves for a just and sustainable world. She is a queer writer, activist, and budding ukulele player living in the mountains of Virginia with her furry, scaly, and oinky family members. For over a decade, Laura has campaigned for a better planet, including in her current role as Campaigns Director at the Better Food Foundation, where she works to reshape food norms around plant-based eating. Laura earned her master’s degree in environmental policy from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the founder of Plight of the Hermies, a grassroots campaign advocating for wild hermit crab freedom, as well as The Every Animal Project, a collection of true stories and photographs of animals around the globe that is transforming how we relate with other species—with a print anthology set to be published in 2023. She published her debut novel, Dellie’s Run, in 2019, highlighting one being’s remarkable journey to freedom through a big dream: baseball. Laura also helped found and managed PR/marketing for the annual Hampton Roads VegFest for four years and has led social justice campaigns for groups like Northern Shenandoah Valley Unites. In her downtime, Laura can be found traveling the globe in search of waterfalls; eating copious amounts of avocados; playing the ukulele; balancing rocks; and, of course, transforming into a mermaid. She is a PADI-certified mermaid and freediver, and her favorite place to go mermaiding is her second home, the Big Island of Hawaii. Her Vegan Mermaid Warrior Instagram and TikTok accounts, through which she has reached hundreds of thousands of people, host her advocacy videos for sea life, social justice, and her dueling disorders of OCPD and ME/CFS. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

Creature Conserve comes to visit Conversations with Animals with a conversation on rewilding New York City. Listen in as Juliana joins with artists and activists Heather McMordie, Rachel Frank, and Chloe Bulpin to discuss local efforts at supporting bee and bird populations, oysters as protectors, and the new exhibit they are in together on Governor's Island. A special treat: come to Swale House between 1-4p on 5/21 to hear Juliana read new poems, take part in a writing workshop, and view all the dynamic artwork on display until November! ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠⁠ ---- Creature Conserve brings artists, writers, and scientists together to foster informed and sustained support for animal conservation. We believe the arts informed by science have the power to direct our attention to the ongoing loss of species and what we can do about it. Along with being Arts Curator at Creature Conserve, Heather McMordie uses printmaking and puzzles as parallel avenues for exploring the complexities of soil systems. Her work is informed by on-site research experiences conducted on my own and in the company of scientists. Colors, forms, and patterns are informed by field observations. Certain aspects of on-site experience and specific soil processes such as bioturbation or leaf litter decomposition are reflected in the format and puzzle-like nature of the works. Sound elements, physical texture, and mobile elements compliment the visual nature of my prints and provide additional, sensory points of entry into the otherwise obscure world beneath our feet. A beekeeper and a designer, Chloe Bulpin is currently a NYC-based Illustrator and Surface Designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance illustrator for a variety of clients, an editorial designer at a lifestyle media company, and an in-house designer at an international design studio. Outside of work, she has continued my pursuit of learning about sustainability in design with projects like the Bug Banquet, Creature Conserve and volunteering with the World Wildlife Fund. Rachel Frank is a wildlife care manager at The Wild Bird Fund and artist. She grew up near Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, the birthplace of American paleontology, where large mammoth and other megafauna fossils were found, altering Western views on extinction and evolution. Her work uses sculpture, video, and performance to explore our relationships and shifting perspectives towards natural history, climate change, and non-human species. Frank received her BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

Juliana and author Ray Star examine common reactions to veganism, stereotypes around animal lives, the possibilities for artists to tell vegan stories, and the future they'd like to call in for all earthlings...using a little bit of magick. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠ ---- ⁠Ray Star is an Author and freelance writer from Essex in England.Her debut novels, Earthlings and Dominion, books one and two of a young adult fantasy trilogy have won multiple awards and are Amazon Best-Sellers in multiple categories. The final instalment, Land of Hope and Glory, is eagerly awaited by readers and set for release in late 2023, having secured a three-book publishing deal with FCM Media & Chronos Publishing for the trilogy.She is also a columnist for ​V-land UK. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, ⁠⁠Final Curtain Call⁠⁠, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

From Madrid to New York City, Charlie and Juliana discuss ecopoetry, living in a city environment, and the idea of the anthropocence. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠ ---- Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, England. He is the editor of Anthropocene. His poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and once for the Forward Prize. His first collection of poetry A fondness for the colour green is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in June 2023. He spends his spare time completely adrift of reality. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, ⁠Final Curtain Call⁠, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

Have you ever gotten lost in sound? This week, Juliana speaks with David Rothenberg who is a musician, composer, author, and philosopher-naturalist who performs music with a diverse cast of animals. They discuss perceptions of time, cicadas, whale songs, and the life of an artist. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- David Rothenberg has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years.  He is the author of Why Birds Sing, on making music with birds, also published in England, Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany. It was turned into a feature length BBC TV documentary.  His following book, Thousand Mile Song, re-released this month, is on making music with whales.  It was turned into a film for French television. Rothenberg has a podcast series called Soundwalker. His latest streamed concerts are on his Youtube channel. His 2020 releases include In the Wake of Memories, with Wassim Mukdad and Volker Lankow, and They Say Humans Exist, with Jacob Young and Sidiki Camara, named best jazz album of the year by Stereo+ Magazine in Norway. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, which has encouraged and supported all of his creative projects since 1992. A recent article on Rothenberg’s cicada work appeared in the New York Times, along with an interactive feature on his whale music in National Geographic. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, Final Curtain Call, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.

Nonhuman animals who perform labor for humans are often discarded when their bodies give out, but does that have to be the end of the story? This week, Juliana speaks with CJ Wilson who founded Win Place Home, a nonprofit that offers former racehorses a good home where their transition will be smooth and calm, giving them a confident trust to move forward in life. In this episode, they discuss reading body language, Win Place Home's growth over the years, and the alternative possibilities for a human-horse relationship. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- CJ Wilson started riding horses when she was four and grew up riding 3-day eventers. At 17, she was working as an assistant for a saddle seat trainer and eventually for his daughter until she was 26. After learning the intricacies of training, she moved to Northern California to manage a riding stable full of jumpers, dressage, and western horses. Eventually the racetrack called to her, she worked for three years as an assistant trainer in Northern California before returning to Los Angeles. CJ worked another three years as an assistant trainer at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and Del Mar before switching focus to being a vet tech at the non-profit equine hospital at Santa Anita Racetrack for two years. She spent another 2 years at the track as a vet assistant. As the trainer for Win Place Home, CJ brings with her 39 years of experience with horses, 26 years of work experience, and 10 years of experience with thoroughbred racehorses at the track.  It is her dedication and true love for these animals that she works each day to ensure their future is bright. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, Final Curtain Call, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU.

As artists, how do we craft animal characters in a way that is nuanced, ethical, and true to the heart? Pamela Harris--writer, painter, screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker--offers stories from her life on the ways animals have attuned her to higher ways of knowing and being. In this episode, Juliana and Pamela discuss the animals of New York City, quiet, and the importance of retreat in order to see clearly. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Pamela Harris has packaged a pilot with 20th Century Fox; she was selected for the Writers Lab; she directed and co-wrote a short film, ‘En Route,’ that screened at many festivals; and as a playwright is a happy member of Honor Roll and the Dramatists Guild. Pamela is also an artist and has exhibited extensively. She’s currently wrapping up a memoir, How I Learned to Swear. Learn more on her website here. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, Final Curtain Call, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU.

Cats are an animal figure both feared and worshiped. In particular, the black cat is associated with witches and is often hurt or rejected because of this bias. In this episode, Juliana talks with Natalie Harris-Spencer, an author, editor, and blogger about the black cat she won on Twitter, animals in literature, and the writing life. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Natalie Harris-Spencer is an English writer, digital editor, and blogger living in America. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Allegory Ridge, the Stonecoast Review, The Dark City, The Satirist, and more. She was selected by Oyster River Pages as one of their Emerging Fiction Voices, and she is the winner of the Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Stonecoast, University of Southern Maine and she is the Editor-in-Chief of Aspiring Author. She is currently working on her debut novel. Natalie enjoys surprise in fiction. And tea. Find her author pages on Amazon and Goodreads. In her day job, Natalie is Director of Digital Marketing for a global advertising technology leader, with 15 years creating, project managing, and delivering world-class web content and global digital strategies across a wide suite of omni-channel, cross-platform, multi-device products. She has spent 10 years leading, growing, and nurturing teams of digital champions. The bulk of her career has been spent devising the global digital strategy and overseeing global website transformation projects for the world’s largest entertainment company, Sony. Connect with her on LinkedIn. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. Her new film, Final Curtain Call, inspired by the life of Radio City Music Hall's Chief Organist, is currently screening at film festivals. She teaches writing at NYU.

In this episode, Juliana talks with Cory McKague, an artist, educator, and technologist about their artistic practice, the American agricultural system, and what it's like to embody the experience of a cow through virtual reality. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Cory McKague is an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area who is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He holds two Bachelor's degrees both in K-12 Art Education as well as Studio Art & Digital Fabrication from the University of Northern Colorado.  Cory's work centers around social engagement through technology and education. During a four month residency this summer at the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont, Colorado, he created an interactive working exhibition that resulted in two curated exhibitions of over 100 local artists. ---- Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.

In this episode, Juliana talks with Malado Francine, a Los Angeles-based American multi-media artist, about her new series, My Monsters, and her relationship with the creatures in her life. They discuss AI, aliens, future selves, empathy, monsters, and the interspecies connectivity of the eye.  ----  Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ----  Malado Francine (b. Malado Francine Baldwin-Tejeda) is an American multi-media artist based in Los Angeles.  Her work in multiple media examines the intersection of culture and identity through the re-telling of personal narratives. Outstanding influences in her work include a childhood spent in Dakar, Senegal and Bamako, Mali as the daughter of former Peace Corps volunteers in a mixed-race family of Hispanic descent.  She holds a BA in comparative literature from Swarthmore College, and an MFA in painting from the New York Studio School. She spent more than 15 years living and making art in New York City before moving to Los Angeles in 2013. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide, including her early film work as a part of Miranda July’s Joanie4Jackie film archive at Bard College and the Getty Research Institute, the William Louis-Dreyfus collection, Kean University, Michael Levine Foundation, The Philosophical Research Society, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg collection. ----  Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.

In this episode, Juliana talks with Frank Terry, a Los Angeles-based photographer, about his ongoing project, how we touch the earth, which investigates the growing areas of the San Joaquin Valley, and the human influence upon the landscape. They discuss California's water future, solar power, cows, and trusting your heart in the creative process. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Raised between the United States and the Netherlands, Frank Terry is a California native with strong European cultural roots. His American father taught him the value of a strong work ethic as well as nurturing his creative intelligence. From his mother he absorbed a classically Dutch love for the beautiful, simple things – a sensibility often reflected in his images. Enjoyment of photography came early to him. At 12 he picked up his first camera, and by 17 had parlayed his photographs into a local skate magazine (the Rag), documenting his peers in the skate scene. Seeking a more formal education in photography, Frank then attended Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. Upon completion of his degree, Frank began working in Los Angeles, first for renowned photographer Matthew Rolston, and then as a sought-after freelance assistant for an impressive list of industry leaders, ranging from Helmut Newton to Hedi Slimane (and seemingly everyone in between). Frank's current clients include Fossil, Living Proof Inc, and Calvin Klein. His current work includes a bit of everything - Brand Campaigns (Living Proof), BTS (Calvin Klein, Miu-Miu), Social Media (Coach, Tods), and even some still life (YSL Beaute, Hugo Boss). He is represented by Victoria Brynner at Stardust Brands. You can follow him on Instagram or visit his website to learn more about his work. Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.

In this episode, Juliana talks with Melissa Staiger, a Brooklyn-based artist who has had solo exhibitions at the Pratt Institute, SCPS Art Gallery, Kent Place Gallery, among others. She co-curated an exhibit on the life of artist Pamela Colman Smith who was mostly remembered for illustrating the widely used Rider-Waiter-Smith tarot deck. The retrospective was reviewed by the New York Times. Staiger most recently assisted with the storytelling of Smith's life for the Whitney's Biennial. Melissa and Juliana discuss Smith's life, interpret a few of the nonhuman animals who show up on tarot cards, and share stories. ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Melissa Staiger (b.1978, Louisville, KY) earned a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD; an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Staiger has had solo exhibitions at the Pratt Institute, SCPS Art Gallery, Kent Place Gallery in Summit, NJ, and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She has been included in exhibitions at The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Cementa Festival, Cuchfritos Gallery, Equity Gallery, Ground Floor Gallery, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, The Painting Center, Renée Riccardo of Arena, Schema Projects, Stand 4 Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Trestle Gallery, TSA, Ventana 244, Underdonk, and The Wassaic Project. The artist was nominated and attended the Robert Rauschenberg Artist Residency in Captiva, Florida, and attended The Wassaic Project Residency. She is a member of the American Abstract Artists. Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.

In this episode, Juliana talks with Larisa Schuckle, a humane educator and owner of vegan art gallery and cafe, Glitter Thicket. They discuss pleasure, play, children's compassion, and how beautiful vegan treats can be. Yum! ---- Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals ---- Larisa Schuckle is a humane educator and herbivore crafting with sugar and flowers. She is the owner of Glitter Thicket, a small cafe featuring local art and handmade products. They have an entirely vegan menu that includes grilled sandwiches, hotdogs, cookies, muffins, soups, mac and cheese, cupcakes, coffee and tea! Learn more at glitterthicket.com. Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.