Jessica Pierce, Ph.D.

Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist whose work explores environmental bioethics, animal ethics, and the philosophy of human–animal relationships. She is the author of fourteen books, including Who’s a Good Dog? And How to Be a Better Human Dogpedia: A Brief Compendium of Canine Curiosities . Pierce is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School. She writes with a deep commitment to mindful, compassionate, and just forms of coexistence between humans and the many other lives with whom we share the planet. She lives in the Colorado Rockies.