There are many reasons to go vegan in our society. For starters, we are responsible for taking care of nature, including animals subjected to torture and exploitation. They deserve to live a happy life just as we do. Additionally, it is better for the environment as it leads to the consumption of fewer animal products that create a large carbon footprint. Veganism is also healthy for your body as your health needs are taken care of with reduced blood pressure and cholesterol. However, pursuing a vegan life can be challenging at times. In such a case, vegan influencers can help you out. They will provide you with any necessary information, including tips and great vegan recipes that you can integrate into your life. We will look at the top 25 vegan influencers you should check out and who you can work with today.
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Niomi Smart
Niomi Smart is a lifestyle and wellness content creator known primarily for her veganism influencer work. She is the founder of the vegan skincare brand Smart Skin and has also written a best-selling vegan recipe book known as Eat Smart. She has worked with various globally-recognized brands like L'Oreal, Adidas and Dior Beauty. She believes in the ethos of living mindfully, which is seen on her digital platforms, her work with NGOs and the various initiatives she has supported to help women. As such, a global audience of 4.6 million people follows her work, which allows them to live a better life.
Toni Okamoto
Toni Okamoto is a veganism influencer and blogger known for her Plant-Based on a Budget blog. She created the website in 2012 with her friends to share affordable, accessible and easy ways to make vegan recipes on a budget. The goal was to allow people to follow a vegan diet with ease, and as such, the website has become an inclusive resource for people looking to embrace such a diet. Alongside creating the website, she has also made plant-based meal plans that you eat with only $25 in a week, a Budget Facebook support group, two cookbooks, the 7 Days mini-documentary and a vegan podcast. She is backed by a dedicated team that posts on the website.
Lucy Watson
Lucy Watson is a TV personality, businesswoman, animal rights activist and animal rights activist who became famous for her work in the hit show Made in Chelsea. She is known for the various vegan cookbooks she has authored, 'Feed Me Vegan' and 'Feed Me Vegan: For All Occasions.' The former was an Amazon bestseller and was named 'Best Vegan Cookbook' by PETA. Due to the success of these cookbooks, she launched her Feed Me Vegan frozen food range that various stores in the UK stock. Besides that, she has been featured in various popular magazines and television programs, like Grazia, HELLO and 'Sunday Kitchen.' Additionally, she has collaborated with brands like PUMA while being a global ambassador for PETA. She co-founded All Hearts, which helps support animal welfare and environmental charities.
Tabitha Brown
Tabitha Brown is an American actress, social media and veganism influencer. She is known for her online video content on Facebook and Tiktoks, where she has live cooking shows, quick vegan recipes, honest, humorous food reviews and inspirational posts. As of now, she has over 4 million followers on each of her TikTok and Instagram. She started her journey in veganism to recover from chronic fatigue and pain, which led to great results. She became viral due to her Whole Foods Market's vegan BLT sandwich food review, which led to her being hired as their brand ambassador. She has also been featured in various media giants, like Buzzfeed, Tasty and Goodful. She won the Favorite Vegan Social Media Personality for her work promoting veganism at the Veggie Awards in 2020.
Michaela Vais
Michaela Vais is a food stylist, recipe creator and author for her blog, ElaVegan. She creates healthy and delicious vegan recipes ranging from main dishes to desserts. Her purpose with the blog was to spread her vegan message to people and show them how being vegan is healthy for their bodies and the environment. She started the blog in 2015 and, since then, has over 1 million followers on Instagram and has been nominated for the Influencer Awards of Monaco in the food category. Her work has been featured in various popular publications like Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed and Shape.
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram
Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram is a writer, speaker and raw vegan activist and influencer, known more commonly as FullyRaw Kristina. She founded her website FullyRaw where she talks about this new lifestyle which involves following a compassionate and raw vegan diet. There are various programs, recipes, videos, and workshops that discuss the advantages of raw veganism to the body. A raw vegan diet involves consuming fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds in their natural state. She is also an author of the bestselling raw vegan book 'The FullyRaw Diet: 21 Days to Better Health.' Her YouTube channel has 100 million views, and her socials have 3 million views. She has been part of Greatlist.com's list of 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness since 2015.
Angela Liddon
Angela Liddon is an award-winning vegan blogger and influencer known for her blog, Oh She Glows. This website was formed in 2008, and since then, there have been hundreds of plant-based recipes available for everyone. These recipes are also ideal for those who enjoy eating meat or are picky about what they eat. She has published two cookbooks containing plant-based recipes that have been New York Times Best Sellers. She has received various awards for her blog and books, including Gold prizes at Taste Canada's Awards. She regularly posts on her socials, and you can even ask her questions via her email.
Nimai Delgado
Nimai Delgado is a professional bodybuilder, vegan athlete and vegan influencer. Born to converted Hindu parents, he has been a vegetarian his whole life until he converted to a fully vegan diet in 2015. He believes that we should not harm innocent beings and uses his social media presence to spread his vegan message and lifestyle. He has accomplished much in bodybuilding showing everyone that you can be vegan and still have a ripped body. These accomplishments include winning contests like NPC USA Championships, making him an IFBB Pro.
Ellen Fisher
Ellen Fisher is a vegan author, podcaster, and influencer passionate about a sustainable lifestyle and veganism. She is committed to inspiring others to follow a healthy plant-based diet. She has authored and co-authored three vegan ebooks that contain a variety of vegan recipes, meal plans and tips. She also hosts the Ellen Fisher podcasts, where she talks about motherhood, veganism, relationships, finances and more. She is also active on her socials and posts weekly videos of her life on her YouTube channel, which has more than 700k subscribers.
Katie Higgins
Katie Higgins, also known as Chocolate Covered Katie, is a famous food blogger known for her healthy dessert and comfort food recipes. It is ranked one of the top 25 cooking websites, having 8 million viewers each month. She has been featured in popular media channels and programs like USA Today, Time and The Food Network. Additionally, her cookbook was considered one of the Top 20 Cookbooks of the Year on Amazon. Her Instagram account is regarded as one of Huffington Post's Best Healthy Instagram accounts to follow. She does not follow a vegan lifestyle, but she posts various vegan recipes, and all her recipes are suitable for vegans as long as non-dairy ingredients are used. This has made her an ideal expert for vegans looking for healthy dessert recipes.
Ed Winters
Ed Winters is a best-selling vegan author, educator, public speaker and content creator known for his viral video essays, speeches and debates on the subject. He co-founded Surge, an animal rights organization that focuses on creating media content, articles, campaigns and investigations. In addition, he founded The Official Animal Rights March, which has thousands of participants from all across the world. He is also known for his documentary, Land of Hope and Glory, which exposed the reality of UK land animal farming to the world. He regularly lectures on animal ethics and the environment, with one of these lectures having 35 million cumulative views. He is also a best-selling author that has been featured on LadBible, BBC and ITV.
Jess Beautician
Jess Beautician is an accomplished vegan social media influencer who focuses on cruelty-free and vegan products that span beauty products and food recipes. She also provides beauty product reviews and tips followed extensively by her fans. She has various featured vegan recipes on her blog and her What I Eat in a Day series that notable sponsors have sponsored. She has thousands of followers on her Twitter and Instagram while having over 200k subscribers on her YouTube channel. She is an established authority on all lifestyle, beauty and food products, especially in terms of veganism.
Romy London
Romy London is a vegan recipe developer, cookbook author, food stylist and blogger. She started her vegan journey in 2014 and has since created an Instagram account where she shared her vegan product discoveries and recipes. Since then, it ended up evolving into her current food blog. She develops and tests new recipes for her food blog and notable clients like LoveRaw, Tesco and Cauldron. She has also been featured in various prominent publications like Metro UK, Evening Standard and Plant Based News. She also took part on Netflix in 2020 on the show 'Crazy Delicious' as the only vegan contestant, showing her dishes to world-renowned chefs.
Gaz Oakley
Gaz Oakley is a renowned vegan chef, author, and YouTuber is known for his incredible vegan recipes. His journey in veganism started when he started having stomach pains while eating animal protein and realized that veganism was the way to go. He began his activism work with friends and family, eventually launching his brand Avant-Garde Vegan. This brand has a growing audience of over 2 million people. He has also published various cookbooks featuring unique recipes such as Vegan 100, Vegan Christmas and Plants Only Kitchen. His YouTube channel has over 53 million views. He has created multiple dishes and menus for well-known restaurants like Wagama and The Vurger Co.
Lauren Toyota
Lauren Toyota is a vegan blogger, author, and YouTuber is known for her blog, hot for food. She creates vegan versions of various comfort foods like mac and cheese, burgers and cheesecake so that veganism can become part of the mainstream. hot for food is part of Kin, the number one lifestyle network on YouTube, where she shares various vegan recipes. It has over 450k subscribers and over 38 million views. She has authored two vegan cookbooks that have become bestsellers internationally. Her debut cookbook also received various awards, including the best cookbook at the 2018 Veggie Awards. hot for food has been featured in multiple television shows such as on CTV, Hallmark, and Global TV channels. It has also been featured in publications like Women's Health Magazine, Buzzfeed and Huffington Post.
Neto Craves
Neto Craves is a vegan author, YouTuber and influencer who used to be known as 'The Rawboy' when he started his vegan journey. His website features various digital works dedicated to providing people with delicious vegan recipes. He has published two recipe ebooks with his team that feature a range of recipes. He has also created a meal planner app with a membership that allows you to access thousands of vegan recipes, nutrition details and meal planning. He also has a YouTube channel that features various cooking videos and has 120k subscribers.
Caitlin Shoemaker
Caitlin Shoemaker is a vegan blogger, videographer, author and recipe developer. She was raised as a vegetarian until deciding to go completely vegan in 2015. Her journey started when she realized the vegan options on her campus were insufficient and decided to develop her own vegan recipes. This was when she formed From My Bowl, a website that provides delicious vegan recipes for working professionals and busy parents. She believes that vegan food does not need to be bland, expensive or complicated to make.
Lauren Boehme Hartmann
Lauren Boehme Hartmann is a vegan recipe developer, author, food photographer and blogger known for her blog, Rabbit and Wolves. She is a trained pastry chef obsessed with proving that she can make any recipe vegan. Her recipes are inspired by comfort food, and she strives hard to ensure that they are new creations. Otherwise, she scraps them. She has also authored a cookbook that featured southern recipes for a vegan diet. In addition, her website also features a meal planning app with membership options.
Jeeca
Jeeca, short for Jessica, is a Filipino-Chinese vegan blogger, author and recipe developer. She started this journey after becoming a vegan and creating an Instagram, thefoodietakesflight, which is also the name of her website. She believes the purpose of this platform is to inspire people to follow a more sustainable lifestyle with fantastic vegan recipes. She focuses more on Asian-inspired vegan recipes. She has also authored vegan cookbooks available in digital form and paperback.
Alexandra Andersson
Alexandra is a vegan foodie, activist and influencer and blogger from Sweden. She is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition and has been dedicated to exploring the vegan lifestyle. She believes that veganism is not only a diet but a lifestyle that can lead to well-being. She promotes a balanced diet that consists of all the necessary nutrients she believes do not require animal products. She is currently running the Fivesec Health community, which has a health app available with a membership. There are also digital cookbooks and meal plans available for purchase on her website.
Elisa
Elisa is a food and skin care blogger known for her blog, Happy Skin Kitchen. She started the blog to share her passion for healthy cooking while dealing with hormonal skin acne. She realized that eating healthy was the solution to her skin problems and decided to cut certain foods from her diet. Eventually, she adopted a primarily plant-based diet that many vegans can get inspired by. She has shared all sorts of information about food, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle, including an ebook she authored. Additionally, you can find skin care advice on her blog.
Nadia
Nadia is a vegan health blogger, recipe developer, and YouTuber. She creates delicious and healthy plant-based recipes that are ideal for one's diet and lifestyle. Her journey started when she had skin problems, and conventional medicine was not helping. The recipes featured on her website include main meals, breakfast, dessert, drinks and snack recipes. She has worked with various brands to create unique healthy recipes, like Metro, Froothie and Organic Burst. She also has a YouTube channel with over 25k subscribers where you can find various cooking videos.
Derek Simnett
Derek Simnett is a vegan nutritionist, lean runner, YouTuber and influencer. He is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner that has been coaching people online while creating YouTube videos that inspire others to reach their lifestyle goals. He does this through fitness and plant-based food recipes. He authored a digital ebook that consists of various vegan muscle meals that he eats regularly. He is also supported by some leading vegan brands and has reached out to millions of people through his social media presence.
Valeria Hinojosa
Valeria is a vegan earth activist, eco-entrepreneur and sustainable content creator born in Bolivia. She used to work in the private banking sector until she realized that the lifestyle was unfulfilling. She began pursuing things that made her passionate, eventually becoming a certified Yoga Teacher and sustainable content creator. This was when she created WaterThruSkin, which aimed to provide others with the knowledge necessary to live a kind and responsible lifestyle. Eventually, she launched her vegan and zero-waste CBD brand called Intu Rituals and a platform and podcast that allows people to share their connection with nature, known as Casa Earth.
Annelina Waller
Annelina Waller is a vegan blogger, recipe developer, and fitness and lifestyle influencer. She created her blog to share vegan recipes that have led to her healthy lifestyle. She has also written theses on how food can affect your mood and lifestyle while pursuing her Masters that she completed. She has also completed her yoga teacher training. She has also authored digital and physical cookbooks consisting of various plant-based recipes that you can try out for yourself.
Conclusion
Veganism may be a diet choice where people only eat plant-based meals, but many consider it a lifestyle. It can lead to various improvements in a person's lifestyle and health, which leads to sustainable living. It is also suitable for the environment and nature, as it does not lead to animal abuse and exploitation. In this article, we have seen these fantastic individuals as the pinnacle of veganism and have done outstanding work to bring it into the mainstream. We recommend working with them to create unique plant-based recipes and implement lifestyle changes. Thank you for reading!
Hi! My name is Kathy, I am a retired high school English teacher & vegan enthusiast and blogger. My entire blog is fully plant-based vegan. I truly believe what we eat & how we live determines our health & the preservation of our planet! 🙂
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