Names:Martin and Emma

Bio: These two Social Justice Mentors have been outstanding as returning students to the SJ program. Emma has started a school wide campaign to help our campus do the right thing by no longer ordering apparel from companies who use sweatshops. Martin focuses most of his efforts on the plight of farm animals and looks to help others make a compassionate choice when they sit down to eat. These eleventh graders are bound to raise eyebrows well into their senior year.

Cruel acts toward animals have long been recognized as indicators of a dangerous psychopathy that often claims more than animal victims. "Murderers ... very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids," according to Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Studies have now convinced sociologists, lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and the courts that acts of cruelty to animals deserve our attention. They can be the first sign of a violent pathology that includes human victims.