Jessica Pierce

Bioethicist

Bioethicist Dr. Jessica Pierce has been writing and teaching about the moral contours of human-animal relationships and environmental sustainability for over 20 years and is a leading scholar in environmental bioethics. She has published 11 books, including A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without People, The Last Walk and Run: Reflections on Our Pets at the Ends of Their Lives, and Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, as well as hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. She is passionate about the possibilities for peaceful co-existence between humans and the many other forms of life with which we share the planet. Her Psychology Today blog, All Dogs Go To Heaven, can be found here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-dogs-go-heaven.