Dilan Fernando
Operations Manager @ Ambitious Impact
Bio
I'm currently in the Operations team at Ambitious Impact, with a broader trajectory in animal advocacy. Previously I spent 5 years in operational, community organising and leadership roles at Animal Think Tank, and served in the initial launch team of Animal Rising. Before joining the animal movement in a paid capacity, I organised protests, social events and conferences in Melbourne, Australia.
A proposal for a third way for animal advocacy. In animal advocacy I broadly see two groups: (1) people who strongly want to end animal farming, but whose actions are unlikely to make that happen; (2) people who prioritise reducing animal suffering in the short term within existing systems. The interesting thing is, BOTH of these groups want to end animal farming (or at least factory farming), but neither group is going to make that happen. What would happen if more people embodied a third way: Visionary Pragmatism. An approach which starts with our end goal (e.g. end animal farming), and then gets into the hard work of figuring out the incremental steps needed to get there. What could this approach look like?