Martin Rowe

Martin Rowe is the Executive Director of the Culture & Animals Foundation. He has been engaged with the animal advocacy movement for thirty years. A graduate of Oxford and New York universities, in 1994, he co-founded Satya: A Magazine of Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy and Social Justice. For five years, he worked at Continuum Publishing Company, the publishers of The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams and An Unnatural Order by Jim Mason, among many other animal advocacy titles. In 1999 he co-founded Lantern Books (1999), and subsequently the non-profit Lantern Publishing & Media (2020), where he published scores of books on veganism and animal advocacy. He is the author of The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Reflection, The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation, and The Animals Are Leaving Us (with photos by Jo-Anne McArthur), among several other works. He is currently engaged in the Vegan America Project for Brighter Green. Before becoming Executive Director, Martin was the co-vice president of the CAF board for five years. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.