Inspiring change

As Global Ambassador, Leah will help bring together advocates, farmers, faith leaders, environmentalists, businesses and others who share a vision of a fairer and more compassionate food system.

Leah brings a wealth of experience to the role. She served as our first USA Executive Director in 2018 and has spent the last several years leading Mercy For Animals as CEO, helping to drive change for countless animals around the world. She founded the Transfarmation Project and her books include Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry and Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming. She is also the creator and producer of the award-winning animation Henrietta Finds a Nest, a short animation about a hen she rescued from a factory farm.

Drawing on our Strategic Plan 2026-2030 and findings from Leah’s 2026 Strategic Gap Analysis of the Farmed Animal Protection Movement, the role was created to inspire and unite animal advocates in our fight to protect farmed animals from cruelty.

Thanks to two years of funding from philanthropic funder Coefficient Giving, Leah's new role will help us build an even stronger animal protection movement.

Our Global CEO, Philip Lymbery said:

We are hugely excited to welcome Leah Garcés as our Global Ambassador, taking a frontline role in building the movement to end the cage age, a turnkey step in ridding the world of factory farming. Focusing on thought leadership, cultivating the next generation of leaders, and growing a broad-based movement for change, the role is at the forefront of our strategic programme.

Key to success in ending factory farming will be mobilising a strong and diverse movement that reflects the different facets of society, including farmers, faith leaders, communities, political voices, health, and environmentalists, as well as those driven by animal welfare. As will ensuring that our narrative resonates with the widest possible audiences. As our Global Ambassador, Leah will play an instrumental role in creating the change so urgently needed for animals, people and the planet.

Leah Garcés said:

I am hugely excited to start on this new path as Global Ambassador.

I'll be within the warm embrace of an organisation that gave me my first job in this movement and continues to inspire and motivate me every day. I'm grateful beyond words for the career planning grant from Coefficient Giving that allowed me to work out where I'm best suited to help in the global effort to end factory farming at this unique time in our movement’s history.

A warm welcome to our new Global Ambassador