Lori Marino

Lori Marino is the founder and executive director of The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and founder and President of the Whale Sanctuary Project. She was formerly a senior lecturer at Emory University for 20 years and faculty affiliate at the Emory Center for Ethics. She is also a Creative Affiliate at the Safina Center.

Along with Diana Reiss, she co-authored the first study showing mirror self-recognition in bottlenose dolphins in 2001.[1] She has been involved with work in dolphin and whale neuroanatomy for thirty years, showing that the brains of dolphins became as complex as those of great apes. through a different neuroanatomical route. She has also been interviewed in the documentary Blackfish.