Rappaport To The Rescue

BIO:

Edita Birnkrant is Executive Director of NYCLASS. Prior to joining NYCLASS, Edita was the Campaigns Director for Friends of Animals, where for 12 years she worked on numerous local, national and international animal protection issues for both wildlife and domestic animals around the world, was integral in introducing and enacting legislation into law to benefit animals in New York state and others, and since 2007 has been a leader in the campaign to get carriage horses off New York City streets and other cities. As a native New Yorker, Edita’s commitment to ending the abuse of carriage horses in her hometown runs deep. Her work also includes gaining legal protections and improving the lives of dogs, cats and other companion animals.

Edita led efforts to save and protect wild horses in Western states, transform policies for urban and suburban wildlife, and has given presentations across the country on various animal welfare topics, including on the detrimental impact animal agriculture has on wildlife, the environment, and human health.

A longtime lover and advocate for animals, the environment and wild places, Edita believes that animal protection is a social justice issue. Edita’s passionate belief that positive societal change begins with individual choices led her to NYCLASS, where getting political for animals begins with each person. She’s a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, a certified Holistic Health Counselor, and she earned a B.A in English Literature and Urban Studies from the City University of New York in 2000. Her belief in the interconnectedness of our treatment of animals, the environment, and each other is a guiding force in her life.