Brooke Mays serves as Mercy For Animals’ Director of Communications, overseeing all of the organization’s written materials, including content for Compassionate Living magazine, grant requests to foundations, letters to the editors of newspapers, and communications with the media, corporations and general public.

An artful master of the English language, Brooke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics at University of Michigan in 1999 and a certificate for teaching English as a foreign language from the University of Cambridge that same year.

Along with her communications experience, she has tremendous passion for animal advocacy. For the past decade, Brooke has devoted great time and energy to companion animal protection, including direct care of shelter animals, adoptions and even adopting Maggie, a special-needs dog of her own. In more recent years, in addition to companion animals, Brooke has worked hands-on with farmed animals, volunteering at a number of local and national animal sanctuaries.

Brooke's farmed animal advocacy experience also includes co-coordinating a highly successful fundraising Walk For Farm Animals, working with her local public access station to air documentaries and public service announcements on factory farming, and organizing a Mother's Day "Say No to Veal" demo.

During the 2008 Celebrating Compassion Gala, Brooke was honored by MFA for her dedication to farmed animal protection with "The Hope Award."

Her time with Mercy For Animals has been very successful. Following the release of MFA's undercover investigation revealing extreme animal abuse at Gemperle Enterprises egg farm, Brooke's letter on behalf of MFA to grocery giant, Trader Joe’s, led the company to immediately drop its supplier relationship with the cruel factory farm. She has proven time and again that the pen is mightier than the sword.