Lori
Senior Legal Counsel
I am the senior legal counsel in PETA's Research & Investigations Department. I moved to Norfolk six years ago with my three rescued cats and one rescued iguana (now I have two!) in order to work for PETA. I spend my days—as do the two other attorneys in the department—ensuring that our researchers are provided access to public records, our activists can demonstrate and leaflet against industries that abuse animals, government agencies fulfill their duties to protect animals, and animal abusers are punished by the criminal justice system. My "clients" have included seven polar bears who were trucked through the heat of Central America by a traveling circus, macaques who were denied emergency veterinary care in a drug-testing facility, and chickens in a slaughterhouse who were used as "punching bags" by the facility's workers. Whether there's a win or a loss in the courts, no other work environment provides the support that you need in order to make a difference for animals more than PETA's does. I've never looked back.