Our Team

Hive is a growing group of passionate team members, channel leads, volunteers, and advisors

Founders

  • Sofia Balderson

    Co-founder

    (she/her)
    Sofia's mission is to serve the planet and its inhabitants, focusing on the most neglected causes. 

    Sofia started Hive because she wanted to address the isolation of farmed animal advocates worldwide and improve access to key resources for impactful advocacy. 

    She started the Hive newsletter in May 2022 and the Slack space in February 2023 with Cameron King (now Hive’s advisor). Before starting Hive, Sofia worked at Animal Advocacy Careers and Veganuary.

  • Constance Li

    Co-founder

    Dr. Constance Li joined as a co-founder in August 2023, bringing significant entrepreneurial experience and connections within the animal advocacy movement, cultivated over two decades of involvement.

    Previously, she led a successful cage-free egg campaign at Rutgers University, co-founded the volunteer-based TNR group, Northwest Philly Cat Trappers, and started The Medical Vegetarian Society at her medical school. She is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and established a telehealth company with the aim of earning to give to impactful initiatives to reduce animal suffering.

Team members

  • Allison Agnello

    Communications

    Allison writes the Hive Highlights newsletter.

    Allison is a local community organizer for the SF Bay Area Effective Altruism group. 

    In her free time, she enjoys facilitating group discussions, spending time outdoors, and finding new ways to help others.

  • Kevin Xia

    Generalist

    Kevin supports Hive with resources, community management and other projects.

    He started and runs an effective animal advocacy group in Austria and has supported Effective Altruism Austria as board member since 2023. Previously, he studied Philosophy and Psychology, participated in street activism and discussion groups, and wrote summaries for Faunalytics.

  • Angel Lau

    Fellow

    Angel supports Hive as a fellow primarily with communications, fundraising, and events. 

    She has been creating educational content in Chinese and English to help raise awareness of animal issues since 2018.

  • Maggie Casas

    Fellow

    Maggie is a fellow at Hive, supporting mainly with strengthening the website, as well as contributing to other projects.

    She has a background in Marketing & Communications, having worked for over a decade in the corporate sector. She aims to leverage her professional expertise to support the farmed animal movement.

  • Nazlı Elvan Gökgöz

    Fellow

    Nazlı manages community engagement projects and fosters partnerships, aiming to empower communities through effective communication.

    She is passionate about driving positive change toward a better world for animals.

    As an advocate, she worked with Kafessiz Türkiye (Türkiye Without Cages), where she led volunteer programs and organized events to raise awareness about factory farming.

Community leads

  • Liz Wheeler

    Fundraising channel

  • Björn Ólafsson

    Media Strategies and Research channel

  • Aditya

    India channel

  • Alexia

    Latin America channel

  • Alex Wolfe

    Parents channel

  • Chi

    Asia channel

  • Daniel Abiliba

    Africe channel

  • Johannes Pichler

    Wild Animals channel

  • Em Stokes

    Alt-Protein channel

  • Alicja Bućko

    Food Systems channel

  • Kara Lombard

    Operations channel

  • Danica Kubick

    Operations channel

  • Nicoll Peracha

    MEL channel

Want to join our team as a volunteer or channel lead?

Hive started as a volunteer-run project and we aim for it to remain community-centric. Volunteer channel leads help run subcommunities, engaging members and maintaining our high level of quality content.

Advisors

  • Nicoll Peracha

    Nicoll Peracha

    Advisor

    (she/her)

    Nicoll worked 25+ years in (international) non-profits and co-founded The Mission Motor to empower animal charities through Monitoring & Evaluation. She’s driven to end factory farming, helped expand ProVeg Netherlands, and supports multiple people and organizations as a mentor or board member. Nicoll’s experience spans management, facilitation, and capacity building.

  • Cameron King

    Cameron King

    Advisor

    (he/him)

    Cameron King has co-founded and run Animal Advocacy Africa for the last 3 years as well as participating in Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program in 2020. 

    Previous to this, he has run his own e-commerce business. He has also managed the UK-based vegan discord for 5 years.

  • Aaron Boddy

    Aaron Boddy

    Advisor

    Aaron co-founded Shrimp Welfare Project through the 2021 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Programme. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from LJMU. Aaron’s professional background includes 4 years of as a Business Analyst in the National Health Service, experience collaborating with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute on a survey of AGI Projects, and funding a startup.