Animal Outlook is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA.

Our mission: We’re strategically challenging animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and disseminating information about the many harms of animal agriculture, empowering everyone to choose vegan.

Each year, our groundbreaking investigations reveal truth to consumers and spark change, our innovative legal advocacy brings justice for animals, and we inspire thousands to make compassionate choices. Standing united, we are changing the world for animals.

Exposing Truth

Undercover Investigations – Our brave investigators are shining a bright light on the hidden horrors forced upon billions of farmed animals. Approximately 20 percent of your donation goes directly toward supporting our ongoing investigative initiatives.

Delivering Justice

Legal Advocacy – Our proactive legal team is strategically challenging the status quo of animal agribusiness, from animal cruelty to misleading marketing and unfair business practices. Approximately 20 percent of your donation goes directly to Animal Outlook’s legal advocacy.

Revolutionizing Food Systems

Corporate Outreach – Working with various international corporations, we’re successfully pushing for change to reduce suffering, eliminate animal ingredients, and mainstream the availability of plant-based options. Approximately 18 percent of your donation goes directly to campaigns for change.

Inspiring Change

Outreach & Education – Every day, our staff, interns and volunteers are engaging in creative and effective outreach opportunities to empower others to choose compassion by leaving animals off their plates. Approximately 30 percent of your donation goes directly to outreach and education.

Farm Transitions

Farm Transitions - Our Farm Transitions Program aims to provide farmers with a comprehensive, sustainable, and holistic approach to exiting animal agriculture and entering into a profitable plant-based alternative in the most climate friendly manner available. We do this by centering our approach on farmer's needs, providing agronomic technical assistance, business planning, feasibility analysis, and much more.

Our Leadership Team

Cheryl Leahy

Executive Director/Board of Directors
Animal Outlook

Lisa Winebarger

Board of Directors

Lisa is a public interest attorney who works to advocate for vulnerable and underrepresented people and animals. She has worked at several nonprofit organizations, including Animal Outlook, where she previously served on the Executive Team.

Lisa has extensive experience conducting legal and fact-based research aimed at understanding complex systems to find opportunities to use existing legal tools in creative ways to advance welfare for farmed animals, and has been vegan since 2005. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and her law degree from the American University Washington College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in California and Hawaii, and lives in Los Angeles with her family and two rescue dogs.

Amanda Hitt

Board of Directors

Amanda Hitt has been a champion and visionary for protecting and empowering food system whistleblowers for over a decade. Hitt’s clients have included USDA food safety inspectors in ultra-high-speed slaughterhouses, contract poultry farmers faced with exploitative contracts and company retaliation, and animal researchers privy to taxpayer-funded waste and cruelty. In addition to litigating whistleblowers’ cases, Hitt works to draw public attention to these whistleblowers’ stories and to turn their revelations into food system and legal reforms using strategic policy campaigns. Hitt’s clients come from varied economic sectors and backgrounds – from factory workers to CEO’s. Through assisting her clients, Hitt has learned first-hand the importance of bringing diverse voices together to create meaningful change. Hitt is a former 2024 Visiting Fellow with the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, where she began her book detailing her experiences challenging the status quo and reimagining the food system. In addition to serving on the Animal Outlook board, she is currently consulting as she finishes her book project.

Our Staff

Financial Reports

Your Donation Dollars at Work for Animals

Your generous donations have been helping us expose the truth about animal agriculture and inspire people to choose compassion for more than 25 years. We rely on donors, like you, to continue our mission.

• View 990

Donate Now

Other Ways To Give

Donation Privacy Policy:
Animal Outlook is committed to respecting the privacy of its donors, whether the donation is made online, by mail, or any other method. We will not sell, share, or trade our donors’ names, personal, or financial information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations, unless the donor has given us specific permission to do so.