Elisa Nair Ferreira is a lawyer, animal advocate and speaker, born in Porto and living in Lisbon. She is co-founder, vice-president and general director at Alianca Animal, an organisation that works within society to promote the respect for all animals, and she is also the director of Effective Vegan Advocacy movement in Portugal.
Elisa has been talking about Alianca Animal work and about many aspects of animal rights, especially amongst the legal community in Portugal, having taught classes on Veganism and Carnism in the Postgraduate Courses on Animal Rights at the Law School of the University of Lisbon. With presentations at national and international Congresses, she also talks about effective communication, having a TEDx on the same subject, applying it's principles to the Animal Cause.