Samantha Shorkey

Samantha Shorkey is a vegan bikini/fitness competitor (read her story), Director of Marketing forThe Vegan Project and author of “Jacked on the Beanstalk: Plant-Based Fuel for Vegan Athletes.” Growing up in a small hunting village just outside of Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) she became vegetarian at the tender age of eight and went vegan in 2011. When she isn’t winning fitness competitions, she can be found nuzzling kittens’ noses, thrashing to death metal, wasting time online or watching the original Star Wars trilogy.