Maynard Clark's vegetarian background.

Maynard Clark has been organizing and building vegetarian networks and studying its culture since he became vegan in the 1970s, including several vegetarian conferences, major indoor and outdoor vegetarian events, and several decades of vegetarian speakers and outreach events. He brought together the Boston Vegetarian Society and began the Vegetarian Resource Center, served on the Regional Council and as VP of the Vegetarian Union of North America, and until recently had a Yahoo! blog with over 1.4 million readers. He's a longtime Harvard employee and a Master's candidate in research administration. More important, he's committed to enriching the herbivorous community's self understanding with the critical tools of the social sciences and the insights of community organizing.

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