Sam Calvert is a member of the Senior Leadership Team at The Vegan Society and has overall responsibility for the communications and fundraising teams at The Vegan Society that covers media relations, PR, web and digital communications and marketing, supporter services, volunteering, graphic design, videography, publications and fundraising.

Sam has a long connection with The Vegan Society as she has been a member for around 28 years, was a trustee of The Vegan Society for a few years in the late 1990s and worked as a freelancer covering media relations for the society from 2012-2014. She has spent 30 years working in marketing and public relations, mostly in the not-for-profit sector, holds professional qualifications in marketing and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Sam also found time to obtain a PhD in Christianity and vegetarianism at Birmingham University and as Researcher in Residence at The Vegan Society she researched the society’s history for its 70th anniversary in 2014. She is an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and working on a monograph of her PhD thesis for publication by Palgrave Macmillan.