
John Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020)
Civil Rights Leader, Congressman, Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner, Cat Lover
“Too many of us still believe our differences define us….” ~ John Lewis, 08/18/2013
EveryCat Health Foundation welcomes and promotes diversity and inclusion for all who are seeking to create, support, deliver and share the science of understanding, healing, curing, and caring for every cat, every day.
EveryCat Health Foundation was formed to promote the health and welfare of all cats by developing or participating in projects for their betterment, including the funding of research and education. The mission is most effectively fulfilled through a commitment to inclusiveness as a core policy and fundamental operating principle. It is the policy of EveryCat Health Foundation to engage in an active and ongoing process that affirms human diversity in its many forms, encompassing but not limited to ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation and identification, age, economic circumstance, class, disability, geography and philosophy. EveryCat Health Foundation seeks diversity to ensure that a range of perspectives, opinions, and experiences are recognized and acted upon in achieving our mission.
“Too many of us still believe our differences define us….” ~ John Lewis, 08/18/2013
“Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone…” ~Josephine Baker
“You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.” ~ Lena Horne
Hasan is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at Kuwait University (hagenetics.org). He received his scientific training with a focus on feline genetics at the University of California, Davis. He earned his Ph.D. in 2013 and since then he has published several studies on the population genetics of cat breeds and on the mapping of genetic basis of phenotypes and diseases. He currently is the principal investigator of a research laboratory that focuses in addition to feline genetics on the molecular and morphological variation of camels.