Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) promotes a peaceful existence through veganism, social justice, and respect for the Earth’s inhabitants and resources. PAN, founded in 2010, is a grassroots group that strives for the absence of violence in the lives of people and animals by eliminating oppression and inequity.

Meet our team

Staff

Emma Goldblatt

Program Manager
Emma Goldblatt has been a passionate animal advocate for as long as she can remember. From a young age, she dedicated her Bat Mitzvah project to Southwest Wildlife Sanctuary, sparking a lifelong commitment to animal welfare. She stopped eating meat at age 16 and became vegan after graduating from college. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Emma runs a professional pet care business and works with Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy and the Peace Advocacy Network to champion a better life for all animals. As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, she also empowers others to embrace plant-based, whole-food nutrition for optimal health and well-being.

Past leadership

Dara Lovitz

Founder

Dara is an Adjunct Professor of Animal Law and works for a non-profit CLE organization. She is the author of Muzzling A Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism, Catching Falling Cradles: A Gentle Approach to Classic Rhymes,Twinsight: A Guide to Raising Emotionally Healthy Twins, and Gag Reflections: Conquering a Fear of Vomit Through Exposure Therapy. She has been a vegan and animal activist since she met Leila Vaughan in 2004. More information about Dara can be found at her website DaraLovitz.com.

The mission of Peace Advocacy Network (PAN) is to promote a peaceful existence through veganism, social justice, and respect for the Earth’s inhabitants and resources. PAN strives for the absence of violence in the lives of people and animals by eliminating oppression and inequity. To this end, PAN is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion among everyone we work with–from board members, employees, and volunteers to participants in the vegan pledge program and other organizational and business partners.  

We embrace differences in all who are involved with PAN in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make PAN unique.

PAN is a program of Shamayim: Jewish Animal Advocacy.

 

Our new address is: 7580 E Gray Rd. | Suite 102 | Scottsdale, AZ 85260

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