Apr072025
Lectures & Panels Human and Animal Expression of Traumatic Grief from Catastrophic Loss
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of the first restorative community for traumatic grief, Selah Carefarm talks about the animals she lives with, her studies of the emotional lives of animals, and how both human animals and nonhuman animals grieve and heal.
Event Overview
On Monday, April 7, The Harvard Animal Law Society and Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program will host the revolutionary Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, Founder of Selah Carefarm in Sedona Arizona, the first therapeutic carefarm in the world for traumatic grief based on a framework that incorporates 40 domestic and farm animals rescued from abuse, torture, neglect, and homelessness. A vegan for over 50 years, Dr. Jo, as she is called, is also full professor and Senior Global Futures Scientist Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory Arizona State University, where she is spearheading the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement, and working on opening a new university center that will feature human animal relationships. She will talk to us about the animals she lives with, the studies she and her colleagues have undertaken in relation to the emotional lives of animals, the ways that both human animals and nonhuman animals grieve, and heal, and the deep and ineffable relationship between these animals and the humans who visit Selah Carefarm amidst traumatic grief.