Bios
Lorelei Plotczyk
Creator & Co-founder
Content Producer / Social Media Manager
Content writer/producer, environmental activist, and indie musician Lorelei
Plotczyk has a BA in Media Arts and an MBA with an Environmental Management
specialization. Along with creating grassroots campaign Truth or Drought, which
raises awareness of the connection between meat/animal products and water
depletion, she produces content for her site Brain on Hugs and the Boston-based
publishing company Vegan Publishers, and she co-founded possibly the first team
within a nationally-affiliated environmental organization to focus specifically on
animal agriculture, SanDiego350's Planet-Based Diet team. Lorelei manages the
Truth or Drought social media pages and researches and creates, or works with
designers to create, many of the informative graphics posted.
Berenice Weber
Graphic Designer
Berenice Weber is a compassionate vegan and animal rights activist living in San
Diego by way of Mexico with a Bachelor of Industrial Design from the Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. She has designed materials for the
Animal Protection and Rescue League in Orange County and Truth or Drought,
works on online campaigns for The Humane League as well as Mercy for Animals
and their Spanish page Misericordia para los Animales, and is a member of Vegan
Outreach’s Team Vegan. Berenice delights in leafleting and talking to people about
compassionate living, animal rights, and environmental veganism.
Amy Duncan
Graphic Designer
Amy Duncan helps design Truth or Drought graphics and is passionate about this
issue. She is also a Level Two Reiki practitioner and Certified Holistic Nutritionist.
When her seemingly healthy mother was diagnosed with and passed away from
cancer, it led her to embark on a major health and lifestyle change. As a result of this
transformation, she became passionate about natural remedies and holistic healing
and started The Native Path, offering reiki energy healing and holistic nutrition.
Ronnie Steinau
Business Manager/Event Coordinator
As business manager/event coordinator for Truth or Drought, of which she is a founding member,
Ronnie Steinau oversees the printing and distribution of promotional materials and recruits
volunteers to help with education and outreach. Ronnie has been employed as a correspondent
and data base manager for United Poultry Concerns since 2006. In addition to her employment
at UPC, and for the past 11 years, she has volunteered her time to animal rights activism,
channeling her efforts towards eliminating the exploitation of animals raised for food.
Some of her achievements include managing the Great American Meatout Events in San Diego,
initiating and running vegan outreach campaigns, production team member for the Los Angeles
National Animal Rights Day 2014, and fundraising. In 2007 she held the position of Orange County
(California) Volunteer Coordinator for the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act ballot initiative.
In addition to managing the successful Orange County team, she ranked among the top signature
gatherers for San Diego County. Ronnie holds a degree in Liberal Arts from the University of
Connecticut and lives in Encinitas with her husband, Steve and their three dogs, Danny, April and Treena.
Emily Honeycutt
Campaign Director
In 2002, Emily discovered a low-fat, whole foods plant-based diet and along with it, a whole new world
of fresh flavor and vibrant health. Within a year, she had lost 40 pounds, going from a size 12 to a size 4. She combined her lifelong love of gourmet cooking with her newfound passion for health, nutrition and a vegan diet and lifestyle and turned it into a career by becoming the Supervisor of Salud!, Cooking & Lifestyle School at Whole Foods Market Sacramento in 2004. She ran the school, teaching many plant-based cooking classes until choosing to be a stay-at-home mom in 2007.
Emily has written for VegNews Magazine and Veggie Life Magazine and been interviewed for and had
recipes featured in Sacramento Magazine. Emily has taught at Dr. John and Mary McDougall’s Health
and Medical Center, including twice at their Celebrity Chef Weekends. She has been a presenter at the
San Francisco VegFest, the Sacramento VegFest, Farm Sanctuary, Williams-Sonoma and more. Emily
teaches popular monthly classes at both Whole Foods Market Sacramento and at the Sacramento
Natural Foods Co-op.
In the Spring of 2010, Emily began teaching Food for Life classes for the prevention and treatment of
cancer for The Cancer Project www.cancerproject.org The Cancer Project is a program of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. PCRM promotes preventive medicine, particularly good nutrition. PCRM also conducts clinical research and promotes higher standards in research. From 2013-2014, Emily was an Instructor for the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies www.nutritionstudies.org, facilitating the course in Plant-Based Nutrition offered online through
eCornell. In 2015, Emily joined the team at Truth or Drought as the Director of the "Save Water, Eat Plants!" Citizens' Action Campaign. Emily holds a B.A. in Religion from Otterbein University in
Westerville, Ohio and lives in Sacramento, California with her family.
Get Emily’s free Ebook, with 7 Days of healthy water-saving, whole foods plant-based recipes by visiting www.emilyhoneycutt.com.
Kyle Haller
Website (new site in progress!)
Kyle is designing our new website. Check back soon!