Vic Sjodin: Spring 2014

VO Senior Outreach & Strategy Coordinator, Vic Sjodin, has leafleted 77 campuses this semester, reaching more than 52,000 students!

Vic Sjodin at USC, where he, Rachel Curit, and Steven Litrov reached 3,000 students on 2/20/14.

Vic is known amongst many of his peers as one of the most effective leafleters ever, and plays a big role in advising Adopt a College activists on how to reach the most people per hour spent leafleting.

Traveling throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico since the spring of 2008, Vic has placed Vegan Outreach booklets into the hands of an astounding 720,000+ individuals!

Joseph and Brandon took booklets to share. Lindy wants to go vegan after reading Your Choice.

On 4/9/14, Vic was joined by Josh Libre and Andy MacKenzie, and together they set a new one-day record at New Mexico State, handing out more than 2,000 VO booklets:

“Great day. Right after the first class change, two students approached me within 10 seconds of each other. Joseph is a recent vegan; he took 50 booklets to show to his nutrition class. Brandon wants to help leaflet in the future, so we put him in touch with Tamara Hubbard; also put him in touch with some of the many other vegan students we met, to help start a vegan club on campus. We also met Lindy, who wants to go vegan after reading our booklet.”

New vegan Mark got a Guide and advice from Vic. TTU student Nyla now wants to go vegan.

On 4/7/14, Vic, Josh, and Andy also set a record at Texas Tech University, reaching 2,379 students with Your Choice booklets:

“Monster day! Josh was unleashed on America’s campuses for the second time. We met Mark, who went vegan a week ago; and Nyla, who wants to go vegan after reading our booklets.

“So encouraging to see so many reading and discussing in this conservative area. Fantastic day, and to hear from so many more veg folk, we are changing the world!”

If you’d like to support VO’s world-changing outreach, please visit Vic’s Team Vegan page here.

Rachel Shippee: Spring 2014

VO Outreach Coordinator Rachel Shippee has been to 93 schools this semester, handing out more than 59,000 booklets!

Rachel was the most prolific leafleter last fall, and since the spring of 2009 she has placed booklets into the hands of over 145,000 people!

Rachel at Oklahoma State, where she and Hayley Chaffin handed out 2,500 Compassionate Choices on 2/13/14.

On 1/27/14, Rachel teamed with Suzeii Sierra and Dani Leal to reach 3,400 students at the University of Texas–Pan American:

“Pan Am made for an epic day of leafleting! The take rate was amazing and the students are great. We had many great interactions, and Suzeii talked to countless people interested in joining her animals rights club on campus. It was wonderful to have Suzeii and Dani join me, they are doing great things on campus and for the animals.”

Suzeii (right) with two UTPA students interested in going veg and joining the campus AR club!

Rachel reached 700 students at the University of Wisconsin in River Falls on 3/11/14:

“My day in River Falls was positive and ended on an inspiring note. I had three girls stop by to see what I was doing, and one exclaimed that she was vegan. She was excited to see that someone was out there doing this work. She is interested in doing more for the animals and getting involved with leafleting. Her friend was vegetarian and the other was neither; we talked for a while and they all received Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating booklets, and I got a great pic!”

UWRF students: a vegan who now wants to become a leafleter, a vegetarian, and a woman who now wants to go veg!

You can show Rachel some love and help spread veganism by visiting her Team Vegan page here.

Steve Erlsten: Spring 2014

Steve Erlsten is Vegan Outreach’s Northern California Outreach Coordinator and this semester’s most prolific Adopt a College leafleter: In the past five months, he’s been to over 90 different campuses, directly handing booklets to more than 81,000 students!

Since the fall of 2008, Steve has gotten booklets into the hands of more than 263,000 individuals!

Diane Gandee Sorbi joined Steve at San Jose City College on 2/25/14, and together they handed out 1,175 booklets. Steve reports:

“Today I met Hailey [right], who was essentially vegan for three weeks while her mom was out of town, and her body loved it! She is looking forward to getting her mom to cook some vegan meats!

“I also talked to one student who wondered how much of a difference she really makes by being vegetarian, because she still buys meat for her family. I gave her a Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating to help her kick the dairy habit and a copy of A Meaningful Life to expand on our discussion about how we can multiply our impact by influencing others.”

On 3/4/14, Steve handed out 2,550 booklets at UC Merced and Merced College: “The conversation of the day was with Augustine [left], who is ready to go vegan after reading the Your Choice booklet!”


If you’d like to show your appreciation for Steve’s amazing work and support VO’s Adopt a College program, please check out his Team Vegan page here.

Vegan.com Relaunch

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Matt's New Blog

We know that many of the readers of this blog were not only here for news about Vegan Outreach, but also to follow Matt Ball's writings on vegan advocacy which have influenced innumerable people to get involved in productive outreach.

You can still follow Matt as he has a new blog: A Meaningful Life, A Better World

And he also has a new book out on vegan advocacy: The Accidental Activist

Check 'em out!

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