About Us
Preventing Violence Through Advocacy
Protecting Kids and Pets Partnership is devoted to bringing a wide community of animal rights and advocacy groups together to continue the work she started in the Connecticut General Assembly by pursuing and supporting policies that recognize animal cruelty as a harbinger of future violence. Protecting Kids and Pets Partnership will also keep scorecards on how legislators vote on such laws. A key driver of PKPP’s mission is the fact that over 50% of school shooters started with animal cruelty.
About Diana
Diana Urban, our founder and president, served in the Connecticut General Assembly for 18 years and was the Chair of the Committee on Children. She was well known for her work on the link between animal cruelty and future violent behavior toward people. She was named one of the Top Ten Defenders of Animals by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and is the author of Desmond’s Law, the only law in the country that puts a lawyer in court to represent the interest of justice in cases of egregious animal abuse or neglect.
About Jonathan
Jonathan Walters is the former executive editor of Governing magazine. He is a lifetime member and former President of the Ghent Volunteer Fire Company No. 1. He served for more than 20 years as the Chairman of the Ghent Planning Board and is the author of two books on government performance and results.
These days he hangs out with Rocky, Luna, Roo, Elle Belle, Wensleydale, Fenway Pork, Wesley, Delilah, Donk, Honey Bear, Tiger and Billy the Rescue Barn Cat.
