“To change the world, my friend Sancho, isn’t madness nor utopia. It’s justice.” Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“I want to collapse the distance between humanity and the natural world; I want to introduce and reinforce the idea that all life is entangled and connected and enmeshed,” says writer Talia Lakshmi Kolluri.
“We must speak not only of great devastation,” poet Ilya Kaminsky writes in Deaf Republic.
“Every inch of ground on this earth has seen unfathomable suffering. There is no inch of earth not soaked in suffering, but there is also no inch of earth which is not soaked in joy and beauty and radiance.” Jane Hirshfield
Vision: Humans regard animals as sentient and unique beings who possess their own capabilities and live free from human exploitation
We are in a pivotal moment with respect to species outside of our own, with an extraordinary opportunity to create a profound kinship with those whom our fates are tied, with whom we share a spirit of consciousness. Over the last three years, more than 30 countries have formally recognized other animals including gorillas, lobsters, crows, and octopuses as sentient beings. Aren’t they all sentient?
Arukah Animal International envisions a world where we don’t differentiate between all who live, all who breathe, where we transcend all borders, to be the equal of all living beings, in our astonishing variety and diversity, that we are in fact all a part of a natural evolution of life forms.
We are in fact not a thing apart.
Arukah Animal International sees other-than-human animals as creators of their own lives, as subjects, to thrive, to live, in all their richness and complexity, their individual and insistently singular and purposeful selves in all their marvel, flooding us with wonder.
ABOUT US
MEET THE TEAM
Anything Is Possible

Melba Pattillo Beals
Board

Tenzin Thosam
Board

Gina DeVito
Board
Internationally-based visual artist and curator...
Her work often expresses her social/political views, and calls attention to cultural issues. Dorit created fine art photography and new-media to draw attention to larger social and community issues. Dorit is an activist for animal rights, she is vegan and documents the suffering of animals to raise awareness
Dotan has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel .
Internationally-based visual artist and curator...
Her work often expresses her social/political views, and calls attention to cultural issues. Dorit created fine art photography and new-media to draw attention to larger social and community issues. Dorit is an activist for animal rights, she is vegan and documents the suffering of animals to raise awareness
Dotan has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel .
Internationally-based visual artist and curator...
Her work often expresses her social/political views, and calls attention to cultural issues. Dorit created fine art photography and new-media to draw attention to larger social and community issues. Dorit is an activist for animal rights, she is vegan and documents the suffering of animals to raise awareness
Dotan has exhibited in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel .

Robin Dorman
Executive Director, President

Gregg Tully
Consultant

Zahava-Katz Perlish
Team Member

Zahava-Katz Perlish
Team Member

Jennifer NelsonC
onsultant

Sydney Parker
Team Member


Dorit Jordan Dotan
Artist, Photographer, Desgner
Internationally-based visual artist and curator...