Foundation of Stars

PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has led the world’s largest animal rights organization for more than 25 years. Her passion and dedication to making this world a better place for all living beings has inspired countless others to do what they can to help animals.

Michael Tobias/Jane Morrison (MT/JM): Jane, let us begin with more than just a question but a kind of modest little prelude. Jacques Cousteau brought to the public’s attention the magnificence, richness and vulnerability of the oceans at a time when the notion of the collapse of fisheries, the impact on the oceans of climate change, or the blanching of coral reefs, was hardly understood. Moreover, the ecological sobriety of his message was often superseded by the sheer joy and excitement he conveyed as the world’s foremost oceanic explorer. Your own career, to date, in some respects reminds us of Cousteau’s; except, in our opinion, you may be even more prolific.