Robin Dorman Email & Phone Number

Arukah Animal International is an arts-focused animal-advocacy organization using the arts to inspire a radical shift toward an appreciation that we humans share emotional lives and kinship with other animals. The incandescence of art can inspire us all into taking a stand against the archipelago of suffering of other species, the alarming diminution of lives to which the most appalling cruelties are committed. We are all equal in who we are and our desire to live. In 2023, we had two major live-streamed events—an exhilarating flow of ideas from wide-ranging perspectives, as well as the premier of a video," Pathogens and Pigs, What’s on Your Plate? Rather, WHO's on Your Plate?" that laid bare the despair and desolation for pigs on factory farms—a hotbed of pathogenic or zoonotic infectious diseases.The celebrated and renowned panelists included Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., Jeff Sebo, Ph.D., Steve Decker, and Esther the Wonder Pig; Dana Ellyn, Annie Potts, Ph.D.; Claudia Hirtenfelder, Ph.D., Julia Denos, Bubi the Bear, Laura Jean McKay, Maria Martelli of Just Wondering, Shannon Johnstone, Michelle Waters, Carol Gigliotti, EvaMarie Lindahl.We also created two campaigns that centered around reducing dairy consumption and opposing the possibility of the Canary Island's industrial commercial farming of octopuses.

Free-lance writing and editing. Explored how human and animal health are intertwined, specifically, the public health risks of consuming animals in relation to deadly infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance, and to encourage alternative rituals, ceremonies, folk and other long-held traditions, and practices that do not exalt cruelty or cause grievous public health risk—but, rather, inspire a recognition, a reverence for more-than-human animals in all their astonishment. Co-produced a film about a pig-weighing contest in Taiwan called the Pig of Gods contest with Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST).Previously explored methods of research to verify the presence of pathogenic or zoonotic microorganisms to illuminate the dire public health risks of consuming animals in relation to deadly infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance. Animal industries are among the most dangerous breeding grounds of zoonotic infectious diseases and are directly linked to the production and consumption of animals.

San Francisco Bay Area

Engaged in multifaceted responsibilities to help achieve a permanent ban on dog meat in South Korea: • conducted undercover investigations of various dog farms, dog meat markets, slaughterhouse and butcher shop, receiving international media exposure. • co-produced a film about the dog meat industry. • rescued a number of dogs and a cat who were destined for consumption, arranged their transport to the U.S., and assisted with adoptions. • interviewed on radio and TV and participated in events and speaking engagements; three dogs I helped rescue from a market and butcher shop were transported to LA, where two of the dogs participated in an event at East Hollywood’s National Museum of Animals & Society, which also featured an exhibition about the dog meat trade in Vietnam.• helped organize and provide support for international protests and events against the industry and met with key stakeholders, including the South Korean government, to gain support for such initiatives as providing sustainable and economically viable solutions to the dog meat trade.

Managing Editor-Writer, overall management and direction of a highly regarded bimonthly trade publication in the field of behavioral healthcare financing and services that garnered two Maggie awards. Part of a team that founded an internationally distributed lifestyle magazine, which won numerous awards, including Best City Magazine and Best Entertainment Magazine, where I was responsible for writing and editing feature stories and helped to define editorial domain and focus. Collaborated with legendary human-rights activist and wrote and edited sections of a journal about violations of human rights in the the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which was distributed worldwide. A Los Angeles production company optioned an article I wrote about the activist’s work in the Italian Resistance and human rights. Published articles ranging in subject matter from the majesty of "Moby Dick" to echoes of Balanchine to profiles about politics, culture, science, social justice, and fellow citizens of various species, among other topics.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Developed a series of public affairs programming for broadcast on radio and television and assisted in producing interviews for a daily radio program, “The Faith Middleton Show,” twice the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.