She is Co-Founder and Director of Vegan Advocacy Initiative, an animal advocacy and food justice organization. Linda holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Master’s Degrees in International Relations and Latin American Studies. Her scholarly interests revolve around exploring the ways in which underrepresented and marginalized groups interact, challenge, and resist dominant structures of power. Much of her research has focused on the experience of migration, violence, and trauma among farmworkers and slaughterhouse workers. Linda is also an avid veganic gardener and might be slightly obsessed with the amazing life systems beneath the ground, namely the interaction of soil, fungus, and worms.