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His research focuses on improving the world through [[effective altruism]], [[Speciesism|anti-speciesism]], and [[plant-based]] and [[cellular agriculture]].<ref name="Elliott">{{cite web|last=Elliott |first=Christopher |date=23 February 2017 |title=Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline, bus and train travel. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/whose-armrest-is-it-anyway-the-unspoken-etiquette-of-airline-bus-and-train-travel/2017/02/22/13704fbc-f461-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html |publisher=Washington Post}}</ref><ref name="Reese 1">{{cite web|last=Reese |first=Jacy |date=13 February 2016 |title=The moral demand for cultured meat |url=https://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/this_animal_doesnt_want_to_die_please_think_about_not_eating_him_for_dinner/ |publisher=Salon}}</ref><ref name="Starostinetskaya 1">{{cite web|last=Starostinetskaya |first=Anna |date=17 February 2016 |title=Salon: The Vegan Choice Could Not Be Any Clearer |url=http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7509&catId=1 |publisher=VegNews}}</ref> Reese was recognized as one of [[Vice]]’s “Humans of the Year” in December 2017 along with his co-founder and fiancée Kelly Witwicki.<ref name="Gault">{{cite web|last=Gault |first=Matthew |date=28 December 2017 |title=This Think Tank Wants to End Factory Farming |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev5v9n/this-think-tanks-wants-to-end-factory-farming |publisher=Vice Motherboard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| |date=9 July 2018 |title=Facebook post |url=https://www.facebook.com/jacyreese/posts/2055264418125958}}</ref>
His research focuses on improving the world through [[effective altruism]], [[Speciesism|anti-speciesism]], and [[plant-based]] and [[cellular agriculture]].<ref name="Elliott">{{cite web|last=Elliott |first=Christopher |date=23 February 2017 |title=Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline, bus and train travel. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/whose-armrest-is-it-anyway-the-unspoken-etiquette-of-airline-bus-and-train-travel/2017/02/22/13704fbc-f461-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html |publisher=Washington Post}}</ref><ref name="Reese 1">{{cite web|last=Reese |first=Jacy |date=13 February 2016 |title=The moral demand for cultured meat |url=https://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/this_animal_doesnt_want_to_die_please_think_about_not_eating_him_for_dinner/ |publisher=Salon}}</ref><ref name="Starostinetskaya 1">{{cite web|last=Starostinetskaya |first=Anna |date=17 February 2016 |title=Salon: The Vegan Choice Could Not Be Any Clearer |url=http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=7509&catId=1 |publisher=VegNews}}</ref> Reese was recognized as one of [[Vice]]’s “Humans of the Year” in December 2017 along with his co-founder and fiancée Kelly Witwicki.<ref name="Gault">{{cite web|last=Gault |first=Matthew |date=28 December 2017 |title=This Think Tank Wants to End Factory Farming |url=https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev5v9n/this-think-tanks-wants-to-end-factory-farming |publisher=Vice Motherboard}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| |date=9 July 2018 |title=Facebook post |url=https://www.facebook.com/jacyreese/posts/2055264418125958}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Reese went to Mance Park Middle School in [[Huntsville, Texas|Huntsville, TX]] where he won the T. F. Freedman Speech Competition in [[Houston, Texas|Houston, TX]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/WMS-student-wins-in-Alley-Theatre-competitions-9569143.php/|title=WMS student wins in Alley Theatre competitions held recently|date=2007-02-14|publisher=Houston Chronicle|access-date=2018-08-25}}</ref>. As a child, he also participated in children’s theater productions at [[Sam Houston State University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.shsu.edu/~pin_www/T@S/2005/kidsodyssey.html/|title=Children's Production To Go 'East Of Sun, West Of Moon'|date=2009-06-07|publisher=Sam Houston State University|access-date=2018-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.shsu.edu/~pin_www/T@S/2009/jun0709up.html|title=Forty-five To Play In Children's Production|date=2005-06-15|publisher=Sam Houston State University|access-date=2018-08-25}}</ref> Reese mentions growing up around animals, including rescuing two pet squirrels, as motivation for his career when he realized “not all farms were like the ones [he] grew up with.” He said he was frustrated by the “Ten Commandments morality” he grew up with, wondering how to resolve conflicts between moral principles such as if one needs to steal to protect their family. He decided to live by the “greatest happiness principle,” which he later realized was the philosophy of [[utilitarianism]].<ref name=”Livegan”>{{cite podcast |last1=Lahey |first1=Kevin |last2=Le Roi |first2=Ben |title=Livegan |date=12 December 2017|time=1:20|url=https://www.buzzsprout.com/128075/609587-e8-jacy-reese |access-date=25 August 2018}}</ref>

He first enrolled at [[Brown University]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence, RI]] in 2011, where he carried the Class of 2015 banner for his class along with fellow classmate Sydney Island ’15.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.browndailyherald.com/2011/09/05/promising-hugs-simmons-welcomes-the-class-of-2015/|title=Promising hugs, Simmons welcomes the class of 2015|last=Villacorta|first=Natalie|date=2011-09-05|work=Brown Daily Herald|access-date=2018-08-22|language=en-US}}</ref> Reese's career at Brown was cut short, however, by what he claimed were false allegations of sexual misconduct.<ref name="Brown Daily">{{Cite news|url=http://www.browndailyherald.com/2012/12/03/letter-student-alleges-insufficient-evidence-for-possible-expulsion/|title=Letter: Student alleges insufficient evidence for possible expulsion|date=2012-12-03|work=Brown Daily Herald|access-date=2018-08-22|language=en-US}}</ref> Despite Reese's protests that the University's standard of "preponderance of evidence" against him was insufficient, Reese was expelled from Brown University in 2012 without completing his sophomore year.<ref name="Brown Daily" /> Reese transferred to [[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]], where he worked under psychologists [[Russell Poldrack]] and [[Joshua Greene (Psychologist)|Joshua Greene]]. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacy-reese-24569840/|title=Jacy Reese|publisher=LinkedIn|access-date=2018-08-25}}</ref>


==Work with Animal Charity Evaluators==
==Work with Animal Charity Evaluators==

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Jacy Reese
File:Jacy Reese headshot.jpg
Born
Huntsville, Texas, U.S.[1]
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin
OccupationWriter
Known forFounded Sentience Institute
PartnerKelly Witwicki

Jacy Reese is a writer, social scientist, and co-founder of Sentience Institute.[2][3] He previously worked as a Senior Fellow at Sentience Politics,[4] and before that at Animal Charity Evaluators as chair of the board of directors and then as a full-time researcher.[3]

His research focuses on improving the world through effective altruism, anti-speciesism, and plant-based and cellular agriculture.[5][6][7] Reese was recognized as one of Vice’s “Humans of the Year” in December 2017 along with his co-founder and fiancée Kelly Witwicki.[8][9]

Work with Animal Charity Evaluators

Before he graduated from college, Reese was working on the Animal Charity Evaluators Board of Directors and then joined as a full-time researcher after graduation.[10] Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE, formerly called Effective Animal Activism) is an organization connected with the movement that evaluates and compares various animal charities based on their cost-effectiveness and transparency, particularly those that are tackling factory farming.[11] While at ACE, Reese published a number of blog posts on their website and opinion articles for media outlets like HuffPost.[2] One such article addressed the issue of wild animal suffering, arguing that humans should act on behalf of wild animals to alleviate their suffering if it can be done safely and effectively.[12] His 2015 Vox article on the topic was criticized by writers who argued we shouldn’t intervene or that we should instead focus on helping domestic animals.[13][14][15]

Co-founding of Sentience Institute

After a year and a half at Animal Charity Evaluators, Reese briefly worked with Sentience Politics, a project of the Effective Altruism Foundation. Sentience Politics then split into two organizations, one of which was Sentience Institute, co-founded by Reese and his now-fiancée Kelly Witwicki in June 2017.[10][16] Sentience Institute is an effective altruism think tank working to understand and facilitate the expansion of humanity’s moral circle to all sentient beings. They have published several research reports including a study of the British antislavery movement, a study of the French nuclear power movement, and a poll of American attitudes towards “animal farming and animal-free food.”[8][17] The poll was done in collaboration with Ipsos Group and was covered by media for results like that 47% of Americans support “a ban on slaughterhouses.”[18][19][20][21] The organization receives its funding from individual donors and other charities like the Centre for Effective Altruism and the Effective Altruism Foundation.[22]

The End of Animal Farming

In fall 2018, he is publishing his first book, The End of Animal Farming, which “outlines an evidence-based roadmap to a humane, ethical, efficient food system where slaughterhouses are obsolete.”[2][23][24] Kirkus Reviews says the book addresses food technology like cultured meat and key activist strategies such as “institutional change, in which companies, social groups, and society at large are targeted.” Near the end of the book, Reese concludes that, “if I had to speculate, I would say by 2100 all forms of farming will seem outdated and barbaric.”[25]

Books

  • Reese, Jacy; The End of Animal Farming (Beacon Press, 2018)[2][23][24]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jacy Reese". Facebook. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "Jacy Reese". Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Our Team". Sentience Institute. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. ^ Kravitz, Melissa (1 March 2017). "Organic meat vs. non-organic meat: What does paying more really buy you?". Mic.
  5. ^ Elliott, Christopher (23 February 2017). "Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline, bus and train travel". Washington Post.
  6. ^ Reese, Jacy (13 February 2016). "The moral demand for cultured meat". Salon.
  7. ^ Starostinetskaya, Anna (17 February 2016). "Salon: The Vegan Choice Could Not Be Any Clearer". VegNews.
  8. ^ a b Gault, Matthew (28 December 2017). "This Think Tank Wants to End Factory Farming". Vice Motherboard.
  9. ^ "Facebook post". 9 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  10. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference ”Livegan” was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Daniel Engber, "Save the Chicken", Slate, August 18, 2016.
  12. ^ Reese, Jacy (14 December 2015). "Wild animals endure illness, injury, and starvation. We should help". Vox.
  13. ^ Gunther, Kristen (15 December 2015). "Nature is Violent". Motherboard.
  14. ^ Matthews, Susan (16 December 2015). "Nature Can't Exist Without Suffering—And We Can't Change That". Audubon.
  15. ^ McGrath, Lauren-Elizabeth (16 December 2015). "Vox Fails to Mention 56 Billion Lives in Piece on Animal Suffering". Ecorazzi.
  16. ^ Witwicki, Kelly; Reese, Jacy. "Introducing Sentience Institute". Sentience Institute. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  17. ^ "Research". Sentience Institute. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  18. ^ Chiorando, Maria (20 November 2017). "Poll Shows 47% Of Americans 'Agree With Ban On Slaughterhouses'". Plant Based News.
  19. ^ Starostinetskaya, Anna (21 November 2017). "Nearly Half of Americans Want to Ban Slaughterhouses". VegNews.
  20. ^ Neff, Michelle (21 November 2017). "New Poll Reveals Nearly 50% of Americans Want to Ban Slaughterhouses and Would Prefer Animal-Free Meat". One Green Planet.
  21. ^ Ettinger, Jill (21 November 2017). "70% of Americans Want Better Treatment for Farm Animals, Poll Finds". Organic Authority.
  22. ^ Witwicki, Kelly (6 December 2017). "What We Can Do in 2018 with Your Support". Sentience Institute.
  23. ^ a b Spector, Nicole (1 March 2017). "Fowl play? Subway denies its chicken is only 50% real". NBC News.
  24. ^ a b "Dealmaker: Beacon Press (Imprint)". Publishers Marketplace. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  25. ^ "The End of Animal Farming". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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