Meet Arathi Jayaram, Mercy For Animals’ new Director of Operations.
A passionate and skilled leader, Arathi is helping lead the organization’s charge – working closely with our grassroots coordinators to create, implement and evaluate local, state and national campaigns that promote veganism and the protection of farmed animals.
And while Arathi is a new member to the MFA team, her work to protect animals from cruelty is nothing new.
It was her innate affinity for animals as a young child in Mansfield, Ohio that led Arathi to rescue and rehabilitate creatures big and small, both wild and domestic. A vegetarian for over two decades, Arathi first learned of the cruel reality behind meat production at the age of 10 – a discovery that quickly prompted her to adopt a meatless diet and begin advocating on behalf of farmed animals.
A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, where she received a degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Communications and Sociology, Arathi was a vocal activist on her college campus – working on behalf of social equality, peace and animal advocacy issues. As a contributing journalist to her college newspaper, and through political art shows, lectures and other grassroots activities, Arathi helped shape her campus and local community into a more socially conscious and responsible environment.
It was her passion for justice and commitment to building a kinder society that led Arathi toward full-time animal protection work.
As a communications specialist with various national non-profit organizations, Arathi landed stories with nearly every major media outlet in the country on a wide variety of important animal issues – opening countless hearts and minds to the plight of farmed animals along the way.
Arathi has been an outspoken advocate for farmed animal protection for over two decades – working to pass vital legislation in various states, to expand and promote vegan-friendly businesses, and pressure the nation’s largest fast food restaurants to adopt their first-ever animal welfare standards.
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