Jake Conroy

In 2006, branded as a "domestic terrorist", Conroy was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his involvement in the campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences as a member of SHAC USA, one of the most successful animal rights campaigns in history leading to HLS's market value falling by 90%. It was the first use of the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Their appeal was denied.

On May 26, 2004, fifteen armed FBI agents broke small home in Pinole, California with Federal Air Marshals circling in helicopters. Described as "target[ing] thousands of individuals and hundreds of companies in attacks designed to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS)", of East Millstone near Princeton, Conroy was among seven animal rights advocates who were arrested in May 2004 (dubbed the SHAC7) and charged with trying to disrupt the work of the New Jersey pharmaceutical company. In its drug testing, HLS, a British firm, used dogs, primates and rats in vivisection experiments. "The group liken[ed] its activities to the Underground Railroad and the Boston Tea Party, and advocat[ing] protests, letter-writing, and what it call[ed] publicity stunts to disrupt Huntingdon Life Sciences".

Conroy joined the animal rights movement in 1995 following an attack by the Animal Liberation Front on a restaurant in Bellevue, Washington near to where he lived. He has been involved in a wide range of activism since graduating from art school volunteering with and organize various campaigns on local, regional, national and international levels.