United over 30 people at a member meeting at which Jake Conroy, AKA The Cranky Vegan, gave a presentation on his experiences as part of one of the most effective campaigns in animal rights history

Hosted our first annual Animal Trivia Night, an event targeted at animal lovers who have not yet switched to veganism

Screened Takeout, a gripping documentary that reveals the primary source of the ferocious wildfires in the Amazon and Australia that raged through much of 2020—namely, animal agriculture

Discussed the groundbreaking book, Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work, at our first Animal Lovers Book Club meeting of the year

Hosted “Veganic Gardening 101: How to Grow a 100%-Vegan Garden,” an event to which just 110 people RSVPed and that featured Ken Damro, a veteran horticulturist with decades of experience in eco-conscious building and grounds maintenance

Hosted our first-ever Meditation for Activists workshop, an event to which 50 people RSVPed and that featured Hailey Dixon, a vegan chef and activist turned meditation teacher

Screened GUNDA, the latest animal rights documentary to hit the big screen, only for nearly 250 people to RSVP, making our screening the largest in the world outside of its premiere

Coordinated our first campaign to raise awareness about the damaging effects of fireworks on domestic and free-living animals, a boycott that nearly 60 people signed on to this July 4th

Hosted a book club meeting where Jason Hannan, Lisa Barca, and Kelsey Speakman discussed their contributions to Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial, a recent publication that explores the innovative concept of “meatsplaining” in unrivaled clarity

Screened The Dark Hobby, a riveting, feature-length documentary that follows a band of Hawai'ian Elders, conservationists, and scientists who take their struggle to protect reef wildlife all the way to the Supreme Court

Hosted our first annual “How to Build a Vegan Midwest” summit at which we discussed our 40-year strategic plan, the creation of our chapter system, and upcoming campaigns

Rebooted our LGBTQIA+ community circle by screening the highly acclaimed film, Call Me By Your Name

Screened The Invisible Vegan, a stunning, 90-minute independent documentary that explores the connection between diet and health in the African American community, to celebrate MLK Day

Hosted our first annual Midwest Vegan Speed Dating event, uniting over 30 people searching for their vegan soulmates in collaboration with Karine Charbonneau (AKA Vegan Cupid) and Veggly, a groundbreaking vegan dating app

Hosted our first annual Vegan Climate Summit, an event to which over 120 RSVPed and that attracted nearly a dozen brilliant minds at the intersection of animal agriculture and environmental justice

Hosted our first annual Vegan World 2056 summit, an event to which nearly 120 people RSVPed and that featured a lineup of nearly a dozen riveting speakers

Our Project Animal Freedom - Springfield, MO chapter hosted its first event, a vegan Memorial Day meetup that attracted over 20 community members

Hosted our first-ever Vegan Activist Speed Friending event, a spirited, fun-filled evening during which we recruited the organizer behind our Project Animal Freedom - Lincoln, NE chapter

Hosted our second annual “We Scream for Soy Cream” celebration, an event nearly 30 community members attended at Bombay Food Junkies, St. Louis’ premier all-vegan Asian-fusion restaurant

Hosted our first-ever 100%-online LGBTQIA+ vegan meetup, a sprightly event at which we celebrated all things queer and vegan

United 15 activists at our pasta party and screening of The Animal People that featured none other than Jake Conroy (AKA The Cranky Vegan), one of the SHAC 7 whose activism inspired this documentary, live and in person

Mobilized eight activists at our second annual March for Mercy, demanding that every last animal be treated with dignity, respect, and compassion

Mobilized eight activists at our first annual #FishFreeFebruary campaign, demanding that Whole Foods fully divest from the unconscionably cruel, ecocidal fish trade by 2030 through a three-step process

Mobilized 12 activists at our first annual Vegan Climate March, raising awareness about the profound environmental devastation entailed by modern animal agriculture

Mobilized six activists as part of the Eating Animals Causes Pandemics World Day of Action, dramatizing the connection between animal exploitation and pandemic diseases like COVID-19

Mobilized 11 activists at our “Nonvegan World 2056: Is this what you want?” funeral march as we fought to secure a livable future for all life on Earth, a future defined not by the seeming inevitability of catastrophic climate change, but by the undying promise of an ecological utopia instead

Co-sponsored the Uhuru Solidarity Movement's St. Louis March for Reparations to African People, attracting eight Project Animal Freedom members and roughly 40 people total

Screened Dominion, a groundbreaking animal rights documentary about animals used for food, clothing, and entertainment, attracting 30 community members

Screened Speciesism: The Movie, attracting 10 community members for a relaxing evening as we jump-started our Monday monthly member meetings

Distributed 300 visually stunning, high-impact leaflets about the connection between animal agriculture and environmental devastation at SLU, one of the largest universities in all Missouri with over 14,000 students

United nine activists for a meal, featuring savory food, enthralling conversation, and good old-fashioned vegan fun, at Gokul Indian Restaurant following our March for Mercy

United nine activists at the official opening of our St. Louis Animal Rights Center, a joint venture between no fewer than three local nonprofits that advocate for more-than-human and human animal rights

Hosted our third-ever meetup as the LGBTQIA+ Vegans of St. Louis, attracting six LGBTQIA+ vegans as part of our #CompassionateCommunities campaign

Hosted our third vegan singles meetup, featuring mingling, vegan speed-friending, and the delightful vegan menu at Taste of Lebanon, a local restaurant with an expansive menu of Lebanese delights

Mobilized 13 activists at our annual March to Ban Fur with a goal of building enough pressure to ban the sale of fur in St. Louis by 2025

Mobilized 12 activists for our Give Thanks to All Life Thanksgiving demonstration, reaching an estimated 2,700 passersby

Mobilized 21 activists at our second annual March to Close All Slaughterhouses, an international event that aims to abolish all slaughterhouses, as part of our newly forged #SlaughterFreeSeptember campaign

Mobilized five activists at our March for Mercy on January 1st, demanding that every last animal be treated with dignity, respect, and compassion

Mobilized five activists to protest Circus Fantastic, a show that exploits elephants, tigers, and ponies, to raise awareness about the hardships more-than-human animals endure at the hands of the circus entertainment industry

Screened the long-awaited successor to Earthlings, Dominion, at Ronnie’s 20 Cinema as part of the single largest vegan documentary screening in St. Louis history, receiving over 1,500 views (and counting!) on social media

Screened Albatross, a visually stunning documentary that explores the tragic effect of plastic pollution on the wild albatross population, as part of our zero-waste living campaign, attracting nearly 50 community members

Attended the world premiere screening of The Game Changers, a revolutionary new documentary about meat, protein, and strength, that we promoted at all six theaters in and around St. Louis that screened this groundbreaking film

Organized a memorial service to honor the legacy of Tom Regan, a pioneering father of the modern animal rights movement, author of the 1983 classic “The Case For Animal Rights,” and intellectual firebrand who died of pneumonia at the age of 78 just two years ago

Held our first official Events Committee meeting, inspiring three new leaders to step up and begin serving our community by organizing dozens of high-impact events over the next few months alone

Hosted our second-ever vegan marathon party as part of our summer fundraising campaign, generating over $1,400, our most successful fundraising campaign yet

Organized our first-ever vegan rummage sale, recruiting hundreds of dollars worth of donations from nearly a dozen community members

Co-hosted our first annual “Vegan BBQ Bash,” attracting just over 40 people, to help raise funds for a vegan health and wellness center along South Jefferson that caters to domestic abuse victims, cancer survivors, and those still battling cancer

Co-hosted our first-ever What The Health screening with Love N’ Light Wellness by Leah, attracting just over 20 community members for a fast-paced, fact-filled evening of education, empowerment, and entertainment

Co-hosted a Cowspiracy screening with Love N’ Light Wellness by Leah during the height of the Amazon rainforest fires this August, attracting just over a dozen community members for an evening of food, education, and empowerment

Featured twice in Sauce Magazine’s online publications for our first-ever Vegmas celebration and our Vegan Lebanese Breakfast

Hosted St. Louis’ first-ever “We Scream for Soy Cream!” vegan ice cream celebration on National Ice Cream Day to raise awareness about the dozens of delicious dairy-free alternatives to conventional dairy, attracting over 70 community members

Hosted a vegan mac and cheese and chili recipe share event that showcased nearly a dozen vegan mac and cheese and chili recipes, attracting just under 30 community members

Hosted a pizza party for college students at Pizza Head to kick off our college outreach program with the aim of building thriving coalitions for animal rights at every major college in the US, reaching up to 100,000 students in the St. Louis region alone

Organized St. Louis’ first-ever vegan singles night, nicknamed “Have a Heart,” that featured fresh fruit, a chocolate fondue fountain, and conversation cupcakes, attracting over 30 community members for their chance at vegan love

Organized our first annual “Vegan Lebanese Dinner: A night of Middle Eastern Delights,” that featured everything from fresh, steamy falafel and savory stuffed grape leaves to Lebanese ginger tea and belly dancing, attracting nearly 45 community members

Attracted nearly 30 guests to our first-ever Thanksliving celebration, at which we nominated nearly 30 outstanding activists from across the country for awards to recognize their outstanding contributions to movement, both locally and globally

Sold nearly 30 tickets to our first-ever Vegan Lebanese Breakfast, an event that received rave reviews from attendees

Co-hosted our first vegan picnic in the park with the St. Louis Vegetarian Society, attracting just over a dozen community members

Co-hosted a second vegan picnic in the park with the St. Louis Vegetarian Society, attracting 25 community members, the largest attendance in several years

Organized a vegan meetup at Utah Station, the hottest new vegan-friendly restaurant in all St. Louis, attracting just over 30 community members

Hosted our first-ever vegan house party, attracting roughly half a dozen community members, kickstarting a lovely tradition we intend to carry on over the coming months, years, and decades

Hosted our second-ever vegan house party at which we discussed who we are at Project Animal Freedom, what we do, and why we do it, attracting just under 10 community members

Hosted our third-ever vegan house party at which we unveiled our revised committee structure, attracting nearly a dozen community members interested in joining our Events Committee, alongside a few other core committees

Hosted our first-ever vegan marathon party as part of our summer fundraising campaign, attracting nearly a dozen community members

Co-hosted our second vegan meetup at Utah Station, the latest vegan restaurant to hit St. Louis, that specializes in vegan comfort food, from vegan toasted raviolis to Chris Bertke’s epic take on the McDonald’s Big Mac

Co-hosted our first vegan meetup at CC’s Icee’s Galore in Alton, IL as part of their grand opening celebration, attracting well over a dozen community members who otherwise might not have attended

Organized St. Louis’ first annual March to Close Down All Slaughterhouses as part of an international effort to condemn the horrors, injustices, and atrocities over 50 billion animals endure worldwide in slaughterhouses each year

Organized a McDonald’s protest to raise awareness about the cruelty in McDonald’s chicken farms, where over 100 million chickens are crammed into dark sheds and trapped in filth, unable to engage in most natural behaviors

Co-organized St. Louis’ first annual “Laws for Paws” march to protest the hundreds of abusive puppy mills across the state while calling attention to Missouri’s flimsy animal welfare laws that led to dozens of pets freezing to death during the January polar vortex

Mobilized a dozen activists at our St. Louis March to Ban Fur, the first march in St. Louis history directly targeted at banning the sale of fur in the St. Louis metropolitan area, as part of our historic anti-fur campaign

Mobilized eight activists during our march to disrupt speciesism, during which we gave impassioned speak-outs, sang songs of animal liberation, and urged others to join us, engaging in compassionate, love-based community organizing

Attended the Rally for Trans Workers to strengthen protections for LGBTQIA+ and especially trans workers who a large portion of our society continues to discriminate against at alarming rates

Attended St. Louis’ first annual climate strike to raise awareness not only about our ongoing climate crisis, but also urge environmentalists and environmental organizations to finally address the environmental devastation caused by animal agriculture head-on

Distributed just over 1,800 leaflets as part of our 9/11 memorial at SLU with a goal of distributing at least one leaflet for each American who died during the 9/11 attacks, saving several thousand animals from a lifetime of suffering in the process