Meet Wayne…
Wayne Hsiung is an animal rights lawyer, former law professor at Northwestern School of Law, and co-founder of The Simple Heart Initiative. He has led teams that have investigated and rescued animals from animal-abusing enterprises across the nation – challenging unconstitutional “ag-gag” laws in the process – and has organized successful campaigns to ban fur in San Francisco and California.
As an attorney, he served as lead counsel in two “right to rescue” trials in which activists were acquitted after being charged for giving aid to sick and dying animals in factory farms, garnering media attention from The New York Times.
Wayne’s work has been covered by The Washington Post, WIRED, ABC’s Nightline, and on The Ezra Klein Show. He has also published research (with Cass Sunstein) on climate change’s impact on animals in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
Prior to his work as an animal advocate, Wayne practiced law at two national firms and studied law and economics at the University of Chicago, where he was an Olin Law and Economics Fellow, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He is the proud parent of Oliver, who was rescued from the dog meat trade.