Strategy Lead, Pakistan Coordinator

In addition to working for AAA, Ailya is a grassroots vegan advocate working on peer to peer engagement to increase awareness of speciesism and veganism in Pakistan. Ailya is also the founder of Ghaas Phoos Plant Based Foods, Pakistan's first fully vegan owned and run startup.

She advocates for collective liberation and has been part of other social justice causes. Prior to persuing animal advocacy full-time, Ailya graduated as an Architect in 2015, has taught in several institutes in Pakistan, She was the COO at a media startup and has led and managed multiple projects.

Ailya lives with her 4 elderly cats, loves all animals and has been fostering, rehoming and feeding stray animals as an independent rescuer for over 10 years.'

Director, Co-Founder

Born and raised in Japan, Elly is dedicated to building a more inclusive and effective animal justice movement across Asia. She is one of the first Japanese language educational content providers for vegan advocates in Japan. She read BSc Psychology and MA Filmmaking in the UK, and worked in media for 10 years prior to founding Animal Alliance Asia.

Vietnam Coordinator

Hanh got involved in grassroots animal rights advocacy in 2015 as an undergraduate in the US and, upon graduation, worked in animal advocacy for 2 years. When they returned to their home country of Vietnam in 2019, they continued as associate editor for an animal rights-focused US publisher. Hanh hopes to contribute to the budding animal rights movement here at home.

Program and Research Coordinator

Born and raised in Japan and currently based in Canada, Kaho is dedicated to bringing in the anti-oppressive framework to the animal movement in Asia. Kaho has been involved in multiple social, environmental, and animal justice movements both in Japan and Ontario. She is also passionate about developing the culture of collectivity through building cross-movement and cross-cultural coalitions.

Communications Lead

Me Me is a passionate intersectional humanitarian from Myanmar who avidly advocates and is involved in projects for various social movements, including but not limited to animal welfare and poverty. She believes strongly in the correlations between different social and humanitarian issues around the world creating direct and indirect impact between each other, and the importance of being an intersectional humanitarian.

She is also a fierce activist for the animals, realizing the critical need for the education and implementation of matters related to animal welfare as well as cruelty and exploitation in a variety of industries on a societal, corporate and legal level.

Program & Communications Assistant

Aim was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Psychology.

She’s passionate about collective action for social change. She co-founded Veganism Thailand, a group of Thai animal advocates designed to foster local advocacy and awareness around veganism and animal justice issues.

She’s also an amateur ceramist and a full-time companion of a frisky rescued cat named Caju.

Indonesia Coordinator

Poppy was born and raised in Indonesia, she took part in the Sentient Media Social Media Fellowship 2022 as a team leader for Radical Kindness. She is a grassroot animal activist who seeks a way to gradually empower the community through mentorship with Animal Activism Mentorship locally and internationally. She feels strongly that animal rights, like all social justice issues, needs to be approached through collaboration with any existential issues. With her activism around street outreach, vegan challenge, silent protest, and food solidarity, she is active in lifetime learning activities about philosophy on animal ethics, sociological imaginations, ecocriticism and other literature criticism. By joining this team, she hopes to contribute more to the local community with the core value of AAA.

Taiwan Coordinator

Born and raised in Taiwan, Roxie graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design and worked in the fashion industry for 3 years before seeing the change she wanted to be for animals.

In the past, while working for Taiwan SPCA and Kindness for Animals Taiwan, she was dedicated to researching and lobbying for legislative change.

Being extremely intruiged by the behavioral sicence of animals, she's been taking multiple dog behavior courses in different countries and the journey is still ongoing! She's also a proud caregiver for an aloof rescued dog named Mù-Ěr.

Philippines Coordinator

Stef is a vegan activist. Before becoming vegan, she worked with organisations fighting for environmental protection, women’s rights, and healthcare justice. She graduated with Latin honours from both Medicine and Nursing at the University of Santo Tomas, where she is a Dean Bacala Academic Excellence Award recipient. She is the only doctor to receive the 2013 Health Media Award from the Department of Health. Arguably her most important achievement is being the human guardian of three spoiled cats.

Nepal Coordinator

Witnessing the cruel practice of animal sacrifice in various festivals for long time, Surajan shifted himself towards living a compassionate life when he was around 10 years old. He co-founded Animal Rights Club (ARC) to advocate for animal welfare/rights issues in his community.

Through his work with ARC, he has been an outspoken advocate for animal rights, featured in numerous national and international news media including Kantipur, NBC News, Dailymail etc.

He has worked alongside elected officials, heads of national and international organisations, academics and specially within community to raise public awareness on cruelty-free food, wildlife and environment conservation and implement animal welfare policy changes.

Tech Coordinator

I was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam but currently live in Da Nang City. I turned vegan about 2 years ago after watching a documentary film about cruelty in the meat and dairy product industry. I come from a technical background and have worked for big enterprises in IT/Network/Manufacturing for the last 10 years. However, none of these works made me feel like I'm contributing to making the world a kinder and better place. That's why I decided to join AAA as a Tech Coordinator and hope to use technology to make our world a better place for all kinds of animals and human beings.

Japan Coordinator

Raised in Japan, I went to the US for high school aiming to be an astronaut. I completed a PhD degree in astrophysics in Berkeley, but the most important thing I gained there was a single leaflet about the reality of farmed animals. I stopped buying meat, eggs, and dairy, but my dream for space travel remained strong, so I went on to work on spaceships at SpaceX, etc. After working in places like Antarctica, Greenland, and Midway Atoll, I couldn't help but feel that the animal exploitation issues are more urgent than anything else. I then interned at organizations like THL, Vegan Outreach, Farm Sanctuary, and GFI. Feeling that I can contribute the most back in Japan, I helped with Animal Rights Center Japan for 3.5 years before joining AAA.