Ed Winters has spoken at over 1/3 of UK universities and at 6 Ivy league colleges, including as a guest lecturer at Harvard University in both 2019 and 2020. He has given speeches across the world, including at the University of Cambridge, EPFL, Google NYC and Google Zürich. In early 2019 he gave two TEDx talks, surpassing a total of 1.8 million views online. His speech “You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again” has over 35 million accumulative views online and has been given to thousands of students across UK universities. Read more about Ed >>>
In a 12 month period Earthling Ed gave 107 talks to a total of 27,600 people & 33,248 people signed up to go vegan through Ed’s online content.
In 2016 Winters co-founded the animal rights organisation Surge, which he also co-directs.
The aim of Surge is to spread awareness through creating high quality, digestible, and accessible media content and campaigns, as well as through educational programmes and investigative work.
In October 2018 Ed opened Unity Diner,
a non-profit vegan restaurant in London where the profits go directly back into helping animals.
In 2020, Ed announced the opening of the Surge Sanctuary, a forever home to abused and unwanted animals on an 18 acre site in England.
