{"id":46091,"date":"2011-07-19T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=46091"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:26","slug":"newburyport-daily-news-fox-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/07\/19\/newburyport-daily-news-fox-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Newburyport Daily News profiles Humane Society state director Fox &#039;03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Newburyport, Mass., <em>Daily News <\/em>profiles Alexis Fox &#8217;03, state director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/about\/state\/massachusetts\/\">Humane Society  of the United States<\/a>, who discusses working on new laws to protect animals, investigating farming procedures and answering questions on how to help injured  animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/alexis-fox.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/alexis-fox.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"Newburyport: Alexis Fox. Bryan Eaton\/Staff Photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The spectrum of animals that I talk about in a day is amazingly varied,&#8221; Fox tells reporters Jill Oestreicher Gross.\u00a0 &#8220;This is my dream job. It&#8217;s wonderful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She and husband Jesse Fox &#8217;03 live in Newbury, halfway between Boston, where she spends much of her time with lawmakers on Beacon Hill, and Newmarket, N.H., where Jesse creates custom  bicycles at Independent Fabrications.<\/p>\n<p>An environmental studies major, she has a law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School. As a Bates student, Alexis was a member of People Eating Plants, a campus group dedicated to raising awareness of vegetarian\/vegan issues. Her inspiration to focus on animal issues came later, while living in California, when she attended a meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldf.org\/\">Animal Legal Defense Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew early on that&#8217;s where I was headed,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It&#8217;s been my  passion to help animals.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newburyportnews.com\/local\/x1692752057\/Animal-advocate\"> View story from the Newburyport <em>Daily News<\/em>, July 4, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newburyport, Mass., Daily News profiles Alexis Fox &#8217;03, state director of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,232,11009],"tags":[11051,10760,3906],"class_list":["post-46091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-environment-sustainability","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-environmental-studies","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86403,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46091\/revisions\/86403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}