Holly Elissa

Elissa is a Canadian filmmaker, artist, ecofeminist, and NGO founder (Caleb's Hope and Move Together Foundation) with Asperger's. As filmmaker and producer, she believes working with talent globally creates engaging, diverse, thought-provoking work with a unique point of view. After her own blunders in well-intentioned foreign aid, she is an advocate for challenging colonial narratives and tired aid models in African nations. A believer in life-long learning and personal expansion, Elissa is nearing her final year of law school; her specialty focusing on international law and how it relates to human rights, women's rights, environmental law and animal law. She practices Earth-based spirituality and is a student of Buddhism and yogic traditions; as such she is devoted to the ten living principles of yoga and a bodhicitta path. As an ecofeminist, she rejects speciesism. Her passion for non-human animal welfare led to becoming a force-free, non-violence based CPDT and canine behavioral sp