Our leadership

Our dedicated team of leaders drive the mission and ethos of Animal Aid, working on the ground in all aspects of our operations.

Claire Abrams Myers (bottom left) is our Executive Director and Co-Founder, Guja Lucheschi (bottom middle) is our Operations Manager, Soumya Bhatt (bottom right) is our Sanctuary Animal Welfare Manager, Neha Banyal (top left) is our Director of Operations, Ayala Melki (top middle) and Nandini Singh (top right) are Animal Welfare Managers.

Our caregivers

Caregivers feed, shampoo, clean areas, and wrap their arms around animals one by one throughout each day. In addition to filling water bowls or changing bedding, they're often the first to notice changes in an animal's condition--they see who ate and who didn't; they encourage first steps, report signs of improvement and always add love to the medicine.

Our rescue team

From 7AM to midnight our team of 20 coordinate rescues, coax and comfort frightened animals, search under bushes, descend wells, climb trees--doing whatever it takes to rescue every suffering animal they can. Our emergency desk receives up to 150 calls each day, treating each call with importance and ensuring the rescue of the most urgently ill and injured patients first.

Our HR and admin team

The invisible force, they work behind the scenes to ensure our pharmacy is always stocked, the facilities are well maintained, the database is updated, the salaries paid and that our Animal Aid family keeps growing with new staff bringing additional talents and great energy. Perhaps you won’t see them in our videos, but without them we couldn't save the animals.

Our medical team

Our veterinary team of surgeons, nurses and assistants provide life-saving treatment to more than 450 patients in our hospital each day. Additionally, they treat animals on the street, make sure our sanctuary animals are healthy, and run our Spay and Neuter program.