Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. She is also a professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Science in Society, and coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Entangled Empathy (Lantern, 2015); Critical Terms for Animal Studies (Chicago, 2018), animaladies (Bloomsbury, 2018); Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2011, second edition 2021), and Ethics of Captivity (Oxford, 2014). Her most recent books, include Carceral Logics, edited with Justin Marceau. Gruen was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values in 2018. She is also a leader in prison education, and has taught at Bayview Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Chelsea, NY (now closed); the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury CT when it was a women’s prison; and Cheshire Correctional Institution in Cheshire, CT, a maximum security men’s prison and York Correctional Institution, a woman’s prison. She was also the first chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan. She is a Fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and the Inaugural Research Fellow for the Brooks Institute for Animal Law and Policy. Gruen’s work lies at the intersection of ethical and political theory and practice, with a particular focus on issues that impact those often overlooked in philosophical investigations, e.g. women, people of color, incarcerated people, non-human animals. She is currently working on topics that inform carceral logics, drawing on the black intellectual tradition, as well as legal scholarship and social theory. In addition she is working on another book on entangled empathy focusing on prisons and zoos.