Emilia
Leese
Vegan Legal Eagle
Author, podcast host and seasoned corporate finance lawyer involved in an award-winning rewilding project
SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS • LONDON • REMOTE
PROJECTS • AD HOC • FTC • CONSULTANCY
Ideal Projects Include…
Strategic financing or legal advisory for vegan-owned businesses.
Advisory for setting up a new rewilding project.
Collaborative creative writing or vegan project.
Skillset
📊 Research and Insight
👀 Analysis
💰 Finance
🔧 Advisory
💡 Leadership
Categories
♻️ Sustainability
🗞 Media and Events
🎪 Community Organisations
🎭 Professional Services
🌳 Woodlands
💪 Approach
My NYC legal training has made me well-prepared, analytical and indefatigable.
👑 Greatest Accomplishment
Publishing my book “Think Like a Vegan” in 2021, and thriving in a NY law firm environment for as long as I did!
🎙 About Me
Seasoned lawyer applying critical thinking skills to ethical veganism and nature restoration. I’m an irrepressible content creator and you can’t keep me out of the newest vegan restaurants.
💻 Experience
Twenty years at top NY corporate law firms, author, podcaster with 3 successful series (so far!) and writer.
What I Love…
Writing and thinking
WHat I’m Good At…
Challenging perceptions
What the World Needs…
More critical thinking
What I can Offer…
Lawyering, writing, editing, advising, strategising, speaking
My Ikigai Is…
Fighting for justice using law, words and a strong ethical compass
What makes me unique
💪 FORTHRIGHT
I speak my mind and am always willing to listen and engage with those with whom I don’t agree. My training has equipped me with the tools to navigate conflict whilst staying true to my beliefs and values. I am a force to be reckoned with!
🎬 Macro analytical thinking
My research skills and analysis have been used throughout my career to bring relevant analogies and highlight inequities in the system for the benefit of those who are exploited in our systems of capitalism, white supremacy, animal agriculture and patriarchy. I speak and write to bring focus to these overlooked issues.
🧩 complex concepts MADE accessible
I’m used to juggling complex intersectionality of multiple systems to aid understanding and bring about change to the way we treat one another. I advocate for justice, animals and human rights.
Personality – INFJ
(Advocate)
EXTRAVERT
INTROVERT
THINKING
FEELING
JUDGING
PROSPECTING
OBSERVER
INTUITIVE
🌯 Signature Dish
Homemade pizza in my spangly pizza oven
🏖️ Outside of work you’ll find me…
Hosting vegan eating events (including an annual pannettone tasting of all the vegan offerings of the season!) and researching or writing for my Substack column and podcast. I love to travel and try vegan cuisine from around the world.
🏝 Desert Island Disc
Anything by Liberarto
👀 My Best Friend would say I’m…
A no-nonsense, powerhouse communicator. The one you want in your corner when you can’t see a way out.
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