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Jodie Wiederkehr, Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals

Duncan — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:00:12 +0000

Jodie Wiederkehr–veteran animal advocate and Founder-Executive Director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals (CAA)—recounts details of how CAA was formed, in 2015. (She has recalled in a previous “Talking Animals” conversation how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997.) Wiederkehr explained that she and her initial CAA cohort decided that aiming to ban […]

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Jodie Wiederkehr, executive director of the Chicago Alliance for Animals

Duncan — Wed, 06 May 2020 04:00:16 +0000

Owing to the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing Stay at Home order, I produced and recorded this show remotely from home, the fourth program prepared this way at the Talking Animals corporate headquarters in Jupiter Farms, Florida, and likely the way the broadcast will come together for the next few weeks. Jodie Wiederkehr—who, as executive […]

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Jodie Wiederkehr, campaign director of Chicago Alliance for Animals

Duncan — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:00:33 +0000

Jodie Wiederkehr—campaign director for Chicago Alliance For Animals (CAA), she’s spearheading CAA’s campaign to ban horse carriages in Chicago—recalls how her earliest professional animal advocacy work began in 1997, but that she grew up in a politically-engaged household that was forever taking in sick or injured animals, including a baby lamb! She describes other campaigns […]

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