About
Jack Norris is the President and co-founder of Vegan Outreach. Vegan Outreach produces Why Vegan and other booklets, and has distributed over 11 million copies. Jack runs Vegan Outreach’s Adopt A College program which has directly handed a Vegan Outreach brochure to almost four million students. In 2005, he was elected to the Animal Rights Hall of Fame.
Jack is a Registered Dietitian. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Life University (Marietta, GA) in 2000 and finished his dietetic internship at Georgia State University in 2001.
Jack writes a nutrition blog at JackNorrisRD.com. He is the author of Vitamin B12: Are You Getting It?, Staying Healthy On Plant-Based Diets, and other articles found at VeganHealth.org.
On line videos of Jack’s talks:
- Vegan Nutrition: What Does the Science Say – Dec ’09
- Does Veganism Spread Itself: A History of the Farm Animal Protection Movement in the USA – Jan ’09
Click here to read A History of Vegan Outreach and Our Influences.
Jack currently lives in Oakland with his wife, Alex Bury. They were engaged in dramatic fashion in February 2008. Seven months later they followed it up with an unusual wedding.