Team

Anita Krajnc is the co-founder of Toronto Pig Save and the Executive Director of the Animal Save Movement, a worldwide network of Save groups bearing witness to farmed animals and promoting veganism and love-based, grassroots activism. Anita helps coordinate global campaigns such as the Plant Based Treaty. Anita received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, is a staunch follower of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. Anita has also been an assistant professor at Queen’s University (Ontario), where she has taught university courses on social movement strategies and tactics.

Anita has participated in Clayoquot Sound and Great Bear Rainforest campaigns, where she met Tzeporah Berman, who now chairs the Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty. After reconnecting with her in April 2021, our team was inspired to begin a whirlwind launch of the Plant Based Treaty initiative four months later.

Azul is a Latin American lawyer and activist with a degree from Udelar University in Colombia. She works intensively for the empowerment of the activist community and exposes the relationship between speciesist oppression and the violation of human rights in Latin America. She is a director of recruitment and member of the social media team and she co-organizes Montevideo Horse Save in Uruguay. She founded and organizes several local and international collectives, marches, conferences and activist meetings across the region. She participates in activism tours in different countries contributing to the formation of many chapters.

Ana is a vegan activist who also volunteers for Animal Equality in Mexico. She participates and organizes vegan educational outreach on the streets, at schools, universities and popular festivals. She is an organizer for Guadalajara Animal Save, where she helps coordinate animal vigils, street actions, save squares, vegan food tastings and giveaways. Ana has a degree in performing arts from the University of Sonora with a specialty in dance movement therapy from the Mexican School of Art and Dance Therapy. She teaches ballet and dance at the Centro Escolar Mexico and in a dance academy.

Valezca is a lawyer with a degree from National Autonomous University of Mexico and has a passion for justice. She coordinates welcoming parties for new Plant Based Treaty teams and new activist trainings, and acts as a Regional liaison for Latin America. She organizes animal vigils in Mexico City and says: “At the vigils we see in their eyes a soul full of life, in daily life we see how the planet is devastated. We owe justice to animals and nature.”

Lea is a nurse specializing in palliative care in The Netherlands who dedicated her life to fight for animal liberation after attending her first animal vigil. She is the Regional Campaign Coordinator for Europe and coordinates vegan outreach. She believes strongly in intersectional and community based activism to make the world a better place for all beings.

Nilgün is an organizer for Ankara Animal, Climate and Health Save chapters as well as Regional Campaign Coordinator for the Middle East and Africa. She embraces non-violence, and prioritizes respect and love in her work. She promotes veganism and raises awareness about the climate crisis, through presentations at universities and schools, food give-aways on streets, as well as during book clubs, group meetings, panel discussions and documentary screenings. Through her vegan food workshops she teaches people how to make plant-based milks and yogurts and shares traditional Turkish vegan recipes as well as translated Sherry Colb’s Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger into Turkish.

Noel Santos is a city campaigner from Portugal who joined the climate and animal justice movement in 2007. As a self made handyman, events organizer, digital content creator, researcher and educator, he has helped coordinate campaigns against live exports.

He is a founder of Animal Save & Care Portugal in, one of the largest and most influential animal and climate advocacy movements in Portugal, where he is co-responsible for rescuing hundreds of farm animals, building an animal sanctuary where many of these rescued individuals live and raising awareness of the need for a paradigm shift in our relationship with the planet, animals and their ecosystems.

An advocate of a rooted sustainable lifestyle, he has contributed to models on community living, eco-sustainable construction, organic farming and reforestation.

Samantha is a community organizer, a city campaigner and US Liaison for Plant Based Treaty, where she centers the food system in the fight against climate change. As a lifelong environmentalist, and an animal advocate she fought for a just transition to a plant-based food system after the devastating covid-19 pandemic showed how untenable the current food system is for planetary health and human health. She also believes that engaging in local politics is one of the most effective ways to help animals.
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Sam became the Executive Vice President of Democrats of Pasadena Foothills in March 2025, and is the Chief Financial Officer for Animal Alliance Network. With decades of experience in accounting and efficiency, she brings her private sector experience to her social advocacy by identifying common sense, low cost, low effort solutions for local public policy in the area of sustainability.

James is a director of communications covering media relations, petitions, newsletters and celebrity activism. Previously James worked in the finance industry as a stockbroker and wrote market commentary.

Adrienne George is our marketing director and a regional liaison for North America. With a college diploma in Marketing and Promotions, as well as a degree in History from Brock University, Adrienne branched out and “fell ” into a 20-year marketing career with companies such as as Warner Music Canada and Tim Hortons.

Jennifer is a passionate advocate for animal rights based in Manchester, UK, and has been vegan since early 2010. Her journey into veganism began with a life-changing moment on the highway when she connected deeply with a pig being transported to a local slaughterhouse. After bearing witness accidentally, she went on to form Toronto Chicken Save with her husband and has joined hundreds of vigils, events, and marches since then.

With a degree in biology and a love for running, vegan cooking, and reading, she strives to live compassionately every day. She’s also a proud dog mum to Ruby, a rescue pup from Romania. Jennifer has over a decade of experience as an executive assistant and working with social media, and is proficient in copy editing and proofreading, supporting clear and impactful communication across various projects within the movement.

Zeynep coordinates the global graphics team. She is a qualified graphic design teacher and has a degree from Gazi University. After spending seven years as a designer and art director in the advertising industry, she left her corporate job to use her skills and knowledge to expose the truth about animal agriculture by directing and creating thousands of powerful multilingual graphics.

Gerrah is part of the graphics team for Plant Based Treaty and Animal Save Movement. She was born with a passionate desire to see an end to injustice, and became an activist in her teens. A year after joining the SHAC campaign, she found herself on the receiving end of significant state repression which led to her incarceration in a Young Offenders Institution. Wanting to get back involved in creating social change, she studied media production and taught herself graphic design, co-founding REBELCO, a design agency catering to organizations and changemakers, assisting them in communicating their messages to their intended audiences. Her desire to help create a better world has never faded and she continues to be involved in a range of social justice causes. To read more, visit www.shacjustice.com

Mariana is a film maker and coordinator of the global video team and creates hard hitting, impactful content for our Youtube and social media channels. She studied Cinema at UNICEN University where she specialized in Color Correction, editing, and photography. She graduated with the thesis of a short documentary called “The invisible marks” about a slaughterhouse from her hometown Mar del Plata. After finishing her university degree with the highest grade of 10, she continued in her studies of Color Correction at the Punto Cine Institute and 3d animation in the Davinci Institute. She has been a vegan activist since 2014.