Theresa Bonnici, Press Officer at Eurogroup for Animals

From communications to campaigns, the AAC course helped her connect the dots.

Theresa Bonnici had spent years in communications, working on environmental justice and waste prevention with an NGO in Brussels. She was good at the work, and living in the EU policy capital meant she understood how that machinery operated. But her interest in animal advocacy had always run alongside her career rather than through it: something she pursued personally, following key platforms, making connections, learning on her own time. She wasn’t waiting to be convinced, she just needed a framework.

By May 2023, she’d joined Eurogroup for Animals as Press Officer. The environmental policy background, the Brussels network, the communications experience: all of it transferred. But she wanted to go deeper. AAC’s online course gave her exactly that. It structured what she already knew, deepened her understanding of where interventions for farmed animals actually have traction, and introduced her to how researchers and advocates think about targeting policy and funding. It also introduced her to Effective Altruism, which sharpened how she thought about impact altogether.

“The course provided structured knowledge and helped me stay motivated. It deepened my understanding of effective interventions, particularly for farmed animals, and underscored the importance of targeting policies and research funding.”