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Jenny Stein & James LaVeck, Founders of Tribe of Heart & Award-Winning Filmmakers

Jenny Stein & James LaVeck–founders of Tribe of Heart, a multifaceted nonprofit organization best known for making award-winning documentaries–discuss how they met and took the first steps toward working together. Read more…

Rick DuCharme, Founder and Director of First Coast No More Homeless Pets

Rick DuCharme–founder and director of First Coast No More Homeless Pets in Jacksonville, FL–traces his path from a long career in sales, marketing and management in the heavy equipment industry into animal welfare and rescue. He discusses how those efforts included considerable research and volunteering in and around the Jacksonville area, then being appointed in 2001 to the Mayor’s Task Force For Animal Control. Read more…

Garth Stein–former documentary filmmaker and author

Garth Stein–former documentary filmmaker and author, most recently of “The Art Of Racing In The Rain,” a terrific new novel told from the standpoint of a wonderfully wise and philosophical dog named Enzo–discusses the seedlings of the idea that yielded the key story elements of “The Art Of Racing In The Rain,” and Enzo himself in the role of narrator; Read more…

Moby–songwriter-musician-DJ-veteran animal activist

Moby–the songwriter-musician-DJ-veteran animal activist who enjoys the status of a recording artist who’s enormously successful both commercially (his “Play” album sold 9 million copies) and critically, including his well-reviewed new album, “Last Night”– and former Air America radio host who’s also a longtime animal lover and advocate Read more…

Janeane Garofalo–comedian-actress-activist

Janeane Garofalo–the comedian-actress-activist and former Air America radio host who’s also a longtime animal lover and advocate (with a particular emphasis on rescue dogs)–discusses the rescue dogs she’s adopted, how she decided to no longer put them through the stresses of traveling with her to movie locations and other shoots, Read more…