Our founder, Katie Cantrell, began giving presentations on the impacts of factory farming to classes and groups at the University of California, Berkeley.
We shifted from a fully volunteer-run organization to hiring our first paid employee, and established new regional hubs in Los Angeles and Denver.
We gained 501(c)3 status and launched the first version of our leadership development programs.
We piloted our first large-scale, online version of our leadership development programs to give the most motivated students the opportunity to learn more and develop their leadership and advocacy skills.
FFAC
rebranded as New Roots Institute, a name that more accurately reflects our work and positions us to reach, engage, and empower as many people as possible.
We
evolved away from staff-led classroom lessons and toward educating and training fellows to lead organizing, recruitment, campaigns, and classroom lessons on their own campuses. This fellow-driven approach is more scalable than our previous hub-based model.
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