PATRICE GREANVILLE

Raised in Chile, Patrice Greanville has been a misfit through and through from the very beginning and signs are that things may not change any time soon. A misfit in the U.S. because of his longstanding disagreements with US foreign policy and international postures regarding animals and the environment; a misfit in journalism as a commentator who liked to write in depth; and a misfit in the early animal rights movement because of his internationalist outlook and insistence that campaign strategies should be thought through in a complete socio-political perspective, Greanville's views have often been controversial or uncomfortable to many, to say the least. Recalls ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton, "Greanville was ahead of his time in founding the till-recently dormant Voice of Nature Network, which if it had succeeded according to plan would have beaten Animal Planet and the Discovery Network to the airwaves by many years. He was ahead of his time again in founding the now defunct National Anti-Roadkill Project (now being revived under VNN's umbrella as the Humane Driving is Better Driving project). Anti-roadkill strategies now receive millions of dollars per year in federal and state funding, but Patrice couldn't get a cent when he began, because the data didn't yet exist to show how important this issue is." Helping to found the Animals' Agenda magazine in 1981, Greanville mentored Kim Bartlett during her six years as editor, 1986-1992. As one of their first decisions, they hired Clifton, then freelancing from Quebec and unknown to both, to write a lead feature. Greanville followed Bartlett and Clifton to ANIMAL PEOPLE in 1993. A former academic and by training an economist, Greanville, a member of AP's board, has been in charge of all Internet and new media operations for ANIMAL PEOPLE since 1996.