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🐔 ANIMAL LAW CAREER PANEL
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The National Food Law Student Network, in collaboration with the Harvard Animal Law Society and Maryland’s Food Law Society, presents its second career panel featuring two speakers working at the intersection of Animal and Food Law.
Come join our panelists Alene Anello from Legal Impact for Chickens and Chris Green from Animal Legal Defense Fund to discuss their work with farmed animal welfare issues and career advice for pursuing mission-oriented careers in the non-profit sector.
Meet our esteemed panelists, each bringing a unique perspective to this informative conversation:
🌟 Chris GreenChris Green is the Executive Director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund where he previously established the organization’s Legislative Affairs Program and was its director from 2013–2015. For the past eight years, Chris has served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School, and he also is the former Chair of the American Bar Association’s TIPS Animal Law Committee. In those capacities, Chris persuaded the top three US airlines to stop transporting endangered animal hunting trophies, helped defeat Ag-Gag legislation in several states, and successfully passed ABA-wide resolutions recommending that all US legislative bodies outlaw the possession of dangerous wild animals and provide police officers with non-lethal animal encounter training. Chris also served on a National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ use of dogs in biomedical research. Chris regularly testifies at legislative hearings on animal protection matters and he has been quoted on animal legal issues in dozens of major media outlets. Green is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Illinois, where he created the college’s first Environmental Science degree. Chris also spent several decades working in the fine arts, film, and music industries, and currently manages an Illinois farm that has remained in his family for 185 years. In 2022, Chris received the American Bar Association’s Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law.