Dr. Alka Chandna is a senior researcher at PETA, focusing on animal experimentation issues. She helped launch PETA's Animal Savings Club that encourages cruelty-free spending and she ran PETA's campaign against Columbia University, calling on an end to a number of egregiously cruel experiments on primates. More recently, Alka wrote PETA's 273-page complaint against Covance (a contract testing laboratory) for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Before coming to PETA, Alka served for 5 years as a tenured professor of Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland. Alka, 42, lives in Norfolk, VA.