Indonesia Director

Born and raised in Indonesia, coming from small town in pemangkat. Poppy is animal advocate and a vegan grassroots activist as they are also took part in the Sentient Media Social Media Fellowship 2022 as a team leader for Radical Kindness and working in the one and only farmed animal sanctuary.

Their most passionate field is aboslutely empowering and collaboration every local communities, as Satu Hari Nabati stands for one Day One plant based & One Community a day

Taiwan Director

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 Director

Stef is an animal advocate. 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 Director

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.

Japan Director

Jayson has been engaged in vegan and animal rights advocacy for over eight years. He has translated and produced more than 300 videos on veganism and animal ethics with Japanese subtitles, making the topic of animal rights accessible to Japanese audiences. Through Instagram's collaborative live feature, he has also facilitated conversations with over 150 individuals on a wide range of social justice issues.

Pakistan Director

Dhuha is a feminist organizer, researcher, and writer with a background in the social sciences. She enjoys analyzing cultural shifts and studying the intersections of gender and class with politics. Some of her written work has been published in multiple sections of Dawn, Pakistan's premier newspaper.

In 2024, she was part of the organizing effort for the VegFest Mela in Karachi, which was Pakistan's first-ever plant-based festival. The event brought together 200+ people and helped generate dialogue on intersecting issues like animal rights, food justice, gender, climate, and class.

She hopes to continue to work on bridging differences between people and progressive causes through an intersectional political understanding and sustained movement building.

Program Assistant & Communications Strategist

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 All Animals Thailand, a group of Thai animal advocates designed to foster local advocacy and awareness around veganism and animal justice issues.

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 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.

Executive 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.

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.