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Anna Payton is the Administrator of Will County Animal Control and an adjunct professor at Aurora University in the Human Animal Studies department. Anna Payton was most recently the Director of Aurora Animal Care & Control. Prior to that she was the Executive Director for Naperville Area Humane Society and the Director of Kendall County Animal Control. Anna earned her Bachelor’s degree in Animal Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and her Master’s degree in Teaching with emphasis in Humane Education from Webster University. She has been in the animal welfare field f

In The Gospel of Kindness, Janet M. Davis explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War. Dedicated primarily to laboring animals at its inception in an animal-powered world, the movement eventually included virtually all areas of human and animal interaction.

For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory. Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first.