Fred Hudson and Kevin Chambers to bring experience, commitment to animal-protection campaigns
Washington D.C. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy announced the hiring of Kevin Chambers as Oklahoma State Director and Assistant Director of International.
Kevin Chambers brings decades of global and local business, government, and animal advocacy experience to Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. A former U.S. diplomat and global business expert, Chambers grew up in Oklahoma but has lived and worked around the world. He represented the United States as a member of the U.S. Foreign Service in China, Japan, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Romania, and Angola after earning a master’s in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.S. in wildlife ecology from Oklahoma State University. He also served as a Chinese translator for the U.S. Army Security Agency and was stationed in South Korea. Before joining the Foreign Service, Chambers was the director of international trade and investment for Oklahoma and Missouri, serving five governors. He is the author of five books on international business, travel, history, and languages.
Chambers has been a volunteer cruelty investigator and animal advocate for decades. He was a key advocate in the effort to pass a ballot measure to outlaw cockfighting in Oklahoma in 2002 and has gotten behind the scenes and witnessed the barbaric features of cockfighting firsthand.
Chambers’ dual roles will focus on ensuring animal-welfare laws are maintained or strengthened when it comes to cockfighting and other animal abuses in the state. In addition, his extensive experience in government outside of the United States will be employed to aid the organizations’ multinational campaigns, including eliminating the slaughter of kangaroos to make soccer shoes and the rescue and protection of elephants in Thailand.
“Kevin is not only a tremendous talent as an animal advocate, but he is as dogged and determined as they come,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. “He is a high-impact performer on animal welfare.”
“Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy are pressing animal-welfare issues on a number of fronts, at home and abroad,” said Chambers. “I’m excited to contribute my efforts not only in my home state of Oklahoma, but across the world, protecting animals by advocating for better standards and laws wherever we can.”