Banner Photo: Author in Amsterdam for the Minding Animals conference, 2012. Top Left: Author in Atlanta 2014. Photo by Ann Packwood.

Top Right: Author with birds at Farm Sanctuary, NY, 1998

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Carrie P. Freeman (PhD in Communication & Society, Univ. of Oregon, 2008) is a tenured Associate Professor of Communication at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She researches the role of communication and media in creating a more just and sustainable society, with specialties in media ethics, environmental communication, and critical animal studies. You can link to her many scholarly journal articles and book chapters here:  works.bepress.com/carrie_freeman 
The Framing Farming book is based on her dissertation. And with her former dissertation advisor, Dr. Debra Merskin, Carrie co-authors a media styleguide on responsible coverage of animals  www.animalsandmedia.org 

An animal rights advocate for the last two decades, and vegan since 1996, she has volunteered as a local grassroots activist leader for the Vegetarian Society of Southwest Florida, the Speak Out for Species student group at Univ of Georgia, and Univ of Oregon's Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and now is a faculty advisor for Georgia State Univ's animal rights group PEACE Club. She does some volunteering with the Georgia Animal Rights & Protection group and serves as an indie radio cohost for WRFG-Atlanta 89.3FM's "In Tune to Nature" environmental program and "Second Opinion Radio" animal rights program. You can find her radio podcasts with activists here. 

Dr. Freeman speaking on book to 120 activists at the Animal Rights 2015 conference in DC.