Amelia Annen

Amelia is a writer, actor and comedian originally from Mountain View, California. She is currently earning her BFA in Drama from New York University.

animals

The Big Cat Safety Act: How “Tiger King” Brought to Light America’s Big Cat Problem

Netflix’s Tiger King and America’s Big Cat Problem The completely bizarre but utterly fascinating Netflix series “Tiger King” came out at the beginning of a long and hard period of quarantine, isolation, and national change. The show brought Joe Exotic’s lifestyle at the forefront of

Activists

The Monopolization of the Meat Industry

Farmers and animal rights activists seem as if they would be long-time enemies, but when the culture of the meatpacking industry is broken down, a bigger issue emerges. Four massive meatpacking corporations have monopolized the entire meat industry and both animals and farmers are suffering from it. Seven Sons farm

Border Wall

Center For Biological Diversity Demands Conservation of the Borderlands

Mountain ranges that reach toward the skies, thriving indigenous communities, idyllic deserts, and expansive wildlife are incongruent with the images often painted for us by the Trump Administration of life along the US/Mexico border. In fact, the borderlands are some of the most biodiverse regions in the world. There

Black Lives Matter

On the Intersection of Environmental and Racial Injustice

In the late fifteenth century, when the first European ships landed on the shores of the American continent, colonizers exploited and claimed the land held sacred by the Native Americans. This colonization set a pattern that continues to this day —that of people of color being displaced to less desirable