Darshan's Bio

Darshan joined Animal Defense Partnership as a volunteer in 2024 with a passion for protecting animals by offering her dispute resolution skills to people and groups committed to this movement.

Darshan’s dispute resolution career spans over 22 years.  She began her legal career as an environmental lawyer in 1988 and became a mediation professional, trainer and professor in the mid-1990’s.  Since moving to the Bay Area in 2005, she has taught Mediation at Berkeley Law, Hastings College of the Law, Stanford Law School and Santa Clara School of Law.  She presently teaches Mediation and Mindful Conflict Resolution at Berkeley Law.  Between 2006 and 2012, she co-taught and supervised students in the Mediation Clinic at Hastings. During that time, Ms. Brach also created and delivered dispute mediation trainings to the San Francisco Superior Court and the California Public Utilities Commission.  She mediated as a panelist for the U.S. District Court, California Northern District between 2006 and 2023, and became a practicing psychotherapist in 2015.  She now divides her time between her teaching and psychotherapy practice.  

She lives in the Bay Area with her dog, Mali, and together they roam the gorgeous hills and vales of Marin County, plotting ways to share her concern for animals and spread the gospel of a plant-based diet.