ABSTRACT
I often assure individuals seeking work in the field of animal protection that while it might seem like I followed a plan to secure my position with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), there was a lot of contingency involved. The HSUS and its affiliates work on a national and global scale to take on some of the most challenging areas of animal cruelty, and I provide enterprise-level communications and policy, strategic, and leadership counsel to its president and CEO. In many respects, I’m a futurist, thinking about how the challenges and opportunities of the animal protection landscape will evolve, and searching across cultures, disciplines, and geographies to identify pathbreaking ideas and solutions to the animal welfare challenges of the coming decades. How remarkable that I do so with a PhD in US history, having followed my passion for studying the humane movement’s origins.
