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About the speakers
Kasia Mak is a marketer and strategist on a mission to make our food system healthier, more ethical, and more sustainable. She pivoted her career into the plant-based, moving from Burger King to vegan activism. Her own experiences inspired her to start building Heartbeet, a female-led community to empower and support others on their vegan journeys. Heartbeet has been active for over two years, bringing together more than 300 members and hosting monthly meetups in Amsterdam, and soon beyond. Lenneke van Gaal is a lawyer specializing in trademark law, advertising law, and unlawful publications, with nearly fifteen years of experience examining how communication shapes public perception. After becoming vegan, she began critically analyzing the claims made by the animal industry, such as “animal-friendly meat” and idyllic images of farm life, which suggest that the use of animals can be ethical. This led her to found Stop Humane Washing, an initiative that challenges misleading marketing around animal products and exposes how such narratives conceal the realities of animal agriculture.Lammert van Raan is a former Member of Parliament for the Party for the Animals, where he introduced the Climate Law 1.5 and a law for the Criminalisation of Ecocide. Together with Femke Wijdekop he co-edited the book Hope in Times of Ecocide. In this bundle of essays, Indigenous, religious, and spiritual traditions and their relationship with nature are presented. Drawing on these diverse and colourful perspectives, the book offers a hopeful vision for restoring our connection with Mother Earth and all its inhabitants through compassion and sustainability. Currently Lammert is a campaigner for Ecocide Law.
Alexandra, also known as Die Radikale Veganerin, is RADICAL! LOUD! VEGAN! This Berlin-based activist uses confrontation as a deliberate tool – bringing the reality of animal exploitation directly into public space, unapologetically and hard to ignore. She founded NEON Protest, an extension of her brand FAIR! LOUD! VEGAN!, where techno music, visceral imagery, and abolitionist messaging collide. Her actions are designed not only to disrupt, but to create space for vegans to process emotions and turn them into effective action. Those emotions are central to Alexandra’s work. “I get furious when I see what is done to animals at the hands of humans,” she says. Rather than suppressing that anger, she treats it as fuel.
DINA takes you through her grown-up bedtime stories with her subtle, clear voice and unfiltered lyrics. The true fantasies at first sound innocent but lyrically hit you with a harsh edge of reality. Nevertheless, this music floats through you, so delicate and warm. A bit of jazz, soul and sometimes even hip-hop, everything in her own vulnerable way. Full of harmonies and dancing melodies, the songs evoke a Sunday morning feel in spring with singing birds and a cup of coffee.