Daphna Nachminovitch has been Director of Domestic Animal and Wildlife Rescue for PETA since 1997. She has worked on countless cases of cruelty to animals and her staff members field hundreds of calls every week. Daphna is very hands on and often spends entire days in the field, responding to calls about animals in need. In the wake of September 11th, she personally led a rescue team that provided aid to animals left stranded in apartments near Ground Zero.