SWOARN emerged when seven local activists (Aashish Bharadwaj, Adam Snow, Amanda Delzeith, Ian Combs, Kayla Battle, Pamela Snow, and Sabrina Gilmore) united to consolidate advocacy efforts across Southwestern Ohio. Transitioning from isolated individuals into a unified coalition, the organization fosters community and facilitates grassroots participation for all regional activists.
SWOARN is a non-profit network of people who speak out against injustice and fight for animal rights. Anybody can participate in SWOARN activities, with the only precursor being a feeling of compassion and empathy for all sentient beings and a desire to effect change on how we treat others who may not look or sound the same as we do.
SWOARN maintains a board of directors who make decisions and represent SWOARN. Below are our current board members.
Aashish is a cat parent, software developer, tech nerd, science advocate, and car enthusiast. Aashish has an innate sense of justice that guides all actions and moral principles. Aashish is also a firm believer that all sentient beings, from crustaceans to future advanced AI (not the current LLM garbage), deserve fundamental rights.
Adam Snow works in the IT field as a Cloud Solutions Architect, has a love of superhero movies and comic books, and has been a weight lifting enthusiast since 1996. But his true passion and purpose in life is being an animal rights activist. In addition to co-founding SWOARN, Adam is an organizer and street activist with Anonymous for the Voiceless, a co-organizer of Ohio Occurrence, and is always engaged in social media and other online forms of outreach.
Adam is first and foremost vegan for the animals. Follow him on Defending Veganism
Amanda is a sociology professor who enjoys lifting, thrifting, and reading in her spare time! She also volunteers at the library bookstore and with the color guard at her university. Her greatest passion, however, is standing up against oppression, especially with regard to animals, and she wants to fight this oppression and bring attention to their plight in any way that she can. Her favorite way of doing this is through one-on-one outreach conversations.
Amanda is a financial specialist by day and an animal rights liberation activist 24/7. She has been standing up and amplifying the animals' voices as a mentor and organizer since 2017. After visiting a local dairy farm, she became vegan for the animals and decided that she had to get active fighting for them.
From organizing grassroots efforts locally to collaborating with large organizations, Amanda is relentless in fighting for the animals and helping others get active. As a co-founder of SWOARN, founder and co-organizer of Ohio Occurrence, organizer for Anonymous for the Voiceless and others orgs, and being a mentor with Animal Activism Collective, she helps those who want to get active for the animals meet their goals and get active. Visit her Linktree for more.
Pamela spent the previous 26 years of her in and around the Air Force in various capacities, a life chosen from circumstances. From the beginning, her life was filled with many adversities. Because of this, she has always been able to see the very dark realities of humanity, which led her to the existential questions that ultimately brought about her humility.
Along this journey she began to question how humans regarded nonhuman animals as nothing more than lives for the taking and for exploiting. She sees this as one of many human ethical flaws. If it is wrong to inflict pain on a human being, it is just as wrong to inflict pain on an animal. Moreover, the lives of all animals, great and small, have value and are worthy of respect and compassion. Today she spends her time as an animal liberation activist.
