During a campus visit from Sept. 28-30, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna and animal activist Madeline Krasno spoke about her experience working at a university primate lab and her lawsuits after the university hid her comments about animal research on social media.
Krasno tabled at Library Mall and spoke at the law school during meetings hosted by UW-Madison’s Animal Legal Defense Fund Club and Animal Advocacy Club. Students and community members gathered to hear her accounts of her time at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology from 2011-2013. Krasno shared details of her care for the monkeys, the culture she experienced at the labs and two lawsuits she brought against the university and National Institutes for Health (NIH) after a case of social media censorship.
Krasno joined UW-Madison’s Harlow Center for Biological Psychology — one of two major primate labs on campus along with the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) — as an undergraduate, believing it would help her achieve her dream of working in primate conservation. She said conservation had long been her dream, driven by a love of monkeys and Jane Goodall…