Isabelle Tassi | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:04:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Isabelle Tassi | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Tampa Bay Veg Fest: Former & original organizers, plus keynote speaker Grey https://talkinganimals.net/2019/10/tampa-bay-veg-fest-former-original-organizers-plus-keynote-speaker-grey/ https://talkinganimals.net/2019/10/tampa-bay-veg-fest-former-original-organizers-plus-keynote-speaker-grey/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:59 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7824 On this edition of the show, we reconfigured the regular format a bit, so as to accommodate taking a good look—from a couple of angles—at the Tampa Bay Veg Fest (TBVF), set this year for Nov. 9 at Perry Harvey Sr. Park. First, in recognition that Veg Fest is marking its 10th anniversary, I invited […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2019/10/tampa-bay-veg-fest-former-original-organizers-plus-keynote-speaker-grey/feed/ 0 7824 Dr. Kerry Kriger, founder of Save The Frogs! https://talkinganimals.net/2018/08/dr-kerry-kriger-founder-of-save-the-frogs/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/08/dr-kerry-kriger-founder-of-save-the-frogs/#respond Wed, 29 Aug 2018 04:00:40 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7021 Dr. Kerry Kriger—the founder of Save The Frogs!, which describes itself as the world’s leading amphibian conservation organization—reconstructs the distinctive path he traveled academically and geographically (including a mechanical engineering undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia; studying endangered birds in Hawaii, alongside PhD students; earning his own PhD in environmental science at a university […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2018/08/dr-kerry-kriger-founder-of-save-the-frogs/feed/ 0 7021 Myriam Parham, co-founder of Florida Voices For Animals https://talkinganimals.net/2014/11/myriam-parham-co-founder-of-florida-voices-for-animals/ https://talkinganimals.net/2014/11/myriam-parham-co-founder-of-florida-voices-for-animals/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:00:44 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4289 Myriam Parham—the co-founder and president of Florida Voices For Animals (FVA)—traces the history of the organization, which she formally launched with her mother, Elena Flanagan, in 1989, but was functioning informally some years before that. Parham recounts the early days of FVA—a Tampa-based animal advocacy organization–and the earliest campaigns and educational efforts, and how, over […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2014/11/myriam-parham-co-founder-of-florida-voices-for-animals/feed/ 0 4289 Isabelle Tassi, chief organizer of Tampa Bay Veg Fest https://talkinganimals.net/2011/10/isabelle-tassi-chief-organizer-of-tampa-bay-veg-fest/ https://talkinganimals.net/2011/10/isabelle-tassi-chief-organizer-of-tampa-bay-veg-fest/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:15 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=761 Isabelle Tassi– chief organizer of the second annual Tampa Bay Veg Fest, the Tampa area’s only vegetarian/vegan festival – discusses her educational background and evolution as an animal activist, and describes the main mission and other aspects of Florida Voices For Animals, under whose auspices Tampa Bay Veg Fest is presented.   She also places […]

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