About Us
Pax = Peace
Fauna = Animal
We believe true peace includes all animals. Our partners have spent
years organizing and innovating in the animal movement, and we created
Pax Fauna to make the most of everything that we’ve learned.
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Pax Fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the U.S., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse the cultural norm of eating animals.
How We Show Up
A bit about who we are.
Fiercely Compassionate
Nonviolence is in our blood and it is the first thing that governs everything we do, even before our mission.
Rigorously Humble
We share a holistic commitment to intellectual rigor which honors intuition and received wisdom alongside research, evidence, and logic, while embracing uncertainty.
Professionally Playful
We bring every part of ourselves to our work, including the emotional, professional, and spiritual.
Driven By Necessity
We are individuals who share a calling. We eschew the notion that titles and salaries are a measure of a person’s worth.
Open Everything
We always put transparency and accessibility over security and competition. We seek collaboration by sharing everything we create and trusting that if our contribution is valuable, our needs will be met.
Fail Fast
We celebrate risks and failures of every kind, isolating assumptions and putting them to the test whenever possible.
Trauma Informed
We seek to understand the ways in which trauma affects us and others so that we can be literate in healing ourselves and treating others with care.
Power Positive
We bring power to the surface and celebrate it, believing that power held wisely—and transparently—by one is power for all.
Right to be Raggedy
When we fail to live up to these aspirations or when things blow up in our faces, we hold ourselves and each other with love and understanding.
Our Partners
The team that makes it all happen.
Zoe Griffiths
Experiments Lead
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in animal biology in hopes of becoming a veterinarian, Zoe decided to change courses and pursue her master's degree in animal studies to help further her career in animal advocacy research.
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Aidan Kankyoku
Mission Lead
Aidan Kankyoku is a researcher focused on developing new strategies for the social movement wing of the farmed animal advocacy space.
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