Lori Marino         Last update: September 2012           Lori Marino, Ph.D., is a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University.  She is a former faculty member in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and a current Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Liberal Arts and Faculty member in the Center for Ethics at Emory.  She is also the founder and Executive Director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on creating a new research and educational paradigm of science and scholarship-based advocacy for other animals. She is the author of over 80 publications on dolphin, whale, and primate brain anatomy and evolution, comparative intelligence and self-awareness, in addition to the ethical dimensions of human-nonhuman relationships, including dolphin-assisted therapy and swim programs. In 2001 she co-authored (with Diana Reiss) a seminal paper providing the first definitive evidence for mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins. Since then she has been actively involved in scholarship-based advocacy for dolphins and other animals.  She serves as an expert witness and consultant on the effects of captivity on animals and the claims of the captivity industry. She teaches animal intelligence, animal welfare, brain imaging, human-nonhuman ethics, and many other courses.