CAF’s Board is delighted to announce that Isa Leshko has been chosen as the recipient of the 2023 Nancy Regan Arts Prize. Isa is the author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries, the research for which she received a CAF grant in 2016. Watch a video essay about Isa Leshko’s extraordinary vision by animal studies scholar Laura Alvear Roa here.

Previous winners of the prize have been Joan Chan Wing Yan (2021) and Sue Coe (2022). The award is given to an individual or team who applied for a grant from the organization, or who had produced an outstanding body of work in support of animal rights. (Photo of Isa Leshko: Ron Cowie)