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A Talk with Jennifer Skiff,

Jennifer Skiff is an award-winning that set you on

journalist who traveled the globe as a the path to be an
correspondent for CNN for more than advocate for
a decade. Passionate about animals animals?
and their welfare, she serves as a
trustee, adviser, and spokesperson for It was 1998. I was
charities around the world while in the country of
working with lawmakers to create Laos conducting

positive change. research for a
www.JenniferSkiff.com book, and was
visiting a cultural
Why is your book called Rescuing park. I was slowly
Ladybugs? making my way
down a dirt trail at
When we were kids, many of our the park, having
parents taught us that the ladybug – stopped to read a
the tiny, red-shelled insect with black plaque about

spots – brought good luck when she Buddha, when my
landed on us and that we should boyfriend yelled,
gently blow her away so that she “Jenny, don’t come
could return safely to her family. The down this path.” Of
story nourished our natural empathy course, I did. What I saw weakened
and set us on a path to feel my faith in humanity. Black-and-white
compassion for all animals. At that Asiatic bears, identifiable by the

very young age, the lesson we were trademark cream-colored collar across
being taught was that kindness for their chest, were imprisoned in five
others has rewards. This book is about cages placed around a statue. Set on
people who have shown extraordinary concrete slabs, the bell-shaped
compassion for other animals. chambers were constructed of thick
Rescuing Ladybugs seemed like the iron bars reaching six feet high and
perfect name. four feet wide. They were so small
that the bears’ bodies were pushing

Can you tell us about the through the spaces between the bars.
experience you had with a bear There was no protection from the