Lori Gruen

Lori Gruen is an American philosopher, ethicist, and author who is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. Gruen is also Professor of Science in Society, and Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan. A scholar specializing in animal ethics, Gruen is the author of several books, including *Ethics and Animals: An Introduction* (2011) and *Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals* (2015). She is the creator of *first100chimps.wesleyan.edu*, a memorial for the first 100 chimpanzees used in research in the United States. Gruen has written for *Time* magazine, *Al Jazeera*, and the *Washington Post*. She received her BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado Boulder and her PhD from the same institution. Gruen has held teaching positions at various universities before joining Wesleyan University in 2000. She served as co-editor of the feminist philosophy journal *Hypatia* and edited special editions on feminist legacies and animal others. Her work on "entangled empathy" has been the subject of symposia.