HEIDI PRESCOTT
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CAMPAIGNS 

Heidi Prescott is senior vice president for Campaigns, where she oversees and leads strategic, nationwide advocacy campaigns on factory farming, wildlife abuse, fur, and animal cruelty and fighting. She also manages the Outreach and Strategic Initiatives department.

Prescott began working at The Fund for Animals in 1989, under executive director Wayne Pacelle and the group's founder and president, famed author and animal advocate Cleveland Amory.  Prescott became the national director of The Fund for Animals after Pacelle joined the staff of The HSUS in 1995.  The Fund operates the world-famous Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, Texas, which is home to more than 1,200 animals rescued from abuse or abandonment, as well as a network of wildlife rehabilitation centers and veterinary clinics.

At The Fund and now at The HSUS, Prescott has led a decades-long campaign to end live pigeon shoots, culminating in shutting down the nation's largest and most notorious pigeon shoot in Hegins, Pa. She has played a key role in developing campaigns against hunting and wildlife abuses. She managed a staff that grew from 6 to 20 over eight years and conducted campaigns involving education, litigation and legislative activity on a wide spectrum of humane issues across the country, including hunting, trapping, fur, and canned hunts. She continues to serve as The Fund's national director.

Prescott joined The HSUS with its merger with The Fund for Animals in 2005. The combination of The HSUS and The Fund for Animals allowed the groups to put greater resources into new programs, and enabled the creation of the new campaign department that Prescott oversees. The Campaigns section is a group of talented, professional campaigners who focus on major issues for the organization: (1) the Animal Cruelty and Fighting campaign works with law enforcement agencies to root out dogfighting, cockfighting, and extreme acts of cruelty, and works to strengthen the nation's cruelty laws; (2) the Factory Farming campaign seeks to end cruel confinement of animals in industrial factory farms, and has been responsible for hundreds of companies phasing out eggs from caged hens, veal from crated calves, and pork from crated pigs; (3) the Fur-Free campaign encourages consumers, designers, and corporate leaders to stop using fur from skinned animals, and has exposed cruelties in the industry such as dog fur from China being sold as "fake fur" in American stores; and (4) the Wildlife Abuse campaign works to stop unsporting and inhumane hunting practices, such as "canned hunts" of captive, exotic animals, internet hunting, and contest killing events. 

Prescott is currently the vice-president of Humane USA-PA, a non-partisan and unaffiliated Political Action Committee of the animal protection movement.

Prescott received a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a Master's of Fine Art from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.   

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