Building just and sustainable systems for animals, people, and the planet.
Who We Are
A Just World is a U.S.-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a more sustainable and equitable world for all beings.
We bring together moral conviction and analytical rigor to address interconnected global challenges – from food systems and environmental health to social equity and animal well-being. By aligning ethical purpose with practical strategy, we help drive solutions that are effective, just, and lasting.
Our Approach
A Just World applies a systems-oriented and partnership-driven approach to change. We collaborate with mission-aligned organizations and
initiatives, offering operational support, strategic insight, and research-based guidance to enhance their capacity and impact.
We focus on high-leverage, context-aware interventions – those that reduce suffering, strengthen resilience, and promote fair outcomes for both people and animals, with particular experience supporting initiatives in the Global South.
Our methods emphasize
Learning and adaptability – grounding action in data and reflection.
Collaboration over competition – building shared purpose across sectors.
Transparency and integrity – ensuring trust in both process and impact.
Our Focus
We support initiatives that are:
Impact – driven – guided by measurable goals and thoughtful evaluation.
Ethically grounded – informed by fairness, responsibility, and respect
for sentient life.
Collaborative – connecting changemakers and strengthening collective action.
Adaptive – evolving with new insights, data, and contexts.
Our work spans the interlinked areas of food-system innovation, animal
well-being advancement, environmental sustainability, and equitable
social development.
Our Vision
We envision a world where human progress and moral responsibility reinforce one another – where decisions are guided by both ethical purpose and practical understanding, and where systems that sustain life do so justly.
At A Just World, we believe that thoughtful, well-designed action can produce transformative results. By nurturing integrity, empathy, and strategic intelligence, we aim to help build a world that works better – for animals, people, and the planet alike.
Our Governance
A Just World operates with a commitment to transparency, accountability, and collaborative leadership.
Our Board of Directors provides strategic oversight and ensures adherence to our mission, values, and regulatory responsibilities.
President
Jessika Ava is the CEO and founder of Thrive Philanthropy, a global grantmaker that amplifies plant-based food systems and accelerates alternatives to industrial animal agriculture worldwide. Her notable experience includes NGO management, global grant-making, statistical program evaluations, and Asian street animal welfare. She has been involved in India’s vegan advocacy and street animal welfare movements since 2010. She holds an MS in Biostatistics and an MPA in Non-Profit Management and Program Evaluation and sits as Board President of A Just World, Board Chair of Out to Pasture Animal Sanctuary, and Board member of Animal Alliance Asia. She is an ethical vegan.
Board Secretary
Koushik has been involved in the animal protection movement since 2015 in the US, India, and in the UK in various capacities. He is deeply committed to the idea of farmed animal protection and is a “cautious” effective altruist! He works as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Associate at The Mission Motor, an organisation that provides MEL support to farmed/wild animal welfare and vegan advocacy organisations. He likes to learn new things often, which is evident by his educational and professional trajectory. He has a master’s degree in Biochemistry, specialising in Cancer Biology and another master’s degree in Physiology and Nutrition of Sport and Exercise, specialising in understanding immune responses to exercise in early-stage breast cancer survivors. Professionally, he has worked in animal protection organisations as a volunteer, campaigner, researcher, and as a monitoring and evaluations officer. Some say he is confused, but he calls it learning value!
Board Treasurer
Dawn Moncrief is the founder and president of A Well-Fed World, a global food security, hunger relief, and climate advocacy organization advancing the benefits of plant-based foods and farming. She is a graduate of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and holds two master’s degrees from The George Washington University: one in International Relations, the other in Women’s Studies – both with a focus on economic development. For more than two decades, her work has highlighted the ways in which the consumption and production of animal-sourced foods increase economic disparities and exacerbate global hunger, especially for women and girls. She also draws attention to the devastating impact of animal agriculture as a major driver of natural resource depletion and climate destruction. Dawn is the Board Chair of ProVeg International and Beyond Carnism, Board Director for Thrive Philanthropy and A Just World, and co-chair of the Food and Climate Alliance. She has presented throughout the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Africa. Her publications include contributions in: Food Justice: A Primer, The Reducetarian Solution, and Circles of Compassion.
Our board members bring diverse expertise across philanthropy, sustainability, social justice, and systems change – helping guide A Just World’s ethical and strategic direction.