Wayne Pacelle
Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization with more than 11 million members and constituents, annual revenue of $130 million, and assets of more than $200 million. Pacelle's work on animal issues has been featured in thousands of newspapers and magazines across the country. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on almost all of the major network television programs -– including The Today Show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Good Morning America and ABC's Primetime Live. Pacelle blogs daily at Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation. Pacelle is the author of the forthcoming book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them.