Kathleen Conlee

 Kathleen Conlee is HSUS's director of program management and animal research issues. She also directs the Chimps Deserves Better program, which seeks to end the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research, and the Pain & Distress Campaign, which lobbies for protections for research animals.

Conlee received her undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991.