Stacy Lopresti-Goodman

As the Director of the Animal Law Education and Scholarship Program, Stacy and her team work with law schools, students, and faculty to strengthen and expand animal law education nationwide. She is also responsible for fostering scholarship that advances animal protection and supports ALDF’s mission.

Stacy earned her B.S. in Psychology from Kutztown University and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Connecticut. While a graduate student, she helped lead a campaign that shut down the university’s only primate lab.

She previously served as a tenured Full Professor of Psychology and administrator at Marymount University. During her 22-year academic career, she developed and taught courses on primate psychology, animal activism and advocacy, and food ethics, led study abroad programs to primate sanctuaries in Kenya and Spain, and won various teaching awards.

Her scholarship focuses on documenting the psychological and behavioral consequences of exploitation on nonhuman primates and dogs in laboratories. She has also researched public attitudes toward animal experimentation, alternatives to animal use in psychology education, and burnout in the animal protection movement. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, presented at national and international conferences, and served as a journal editor and reviewer.

She has served as an advisor to animal protection organizations, provided expert comments for lawsuits, testified before lawmakers, lobbied on behalf of animal-related legislation, and spoken in congress on the use of dogs and cats in federally funded research. She has written opinion pieces for outlets including The Hill, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and has been interviewed by national and international media on her research and other animal issues.

Stacy lives outside Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Justin, who also works in the animal movement, and their 100 houseplants. When not working, she enjoys reading, hiking, boating on the Chesapeake Bay, and spending time with friends.