Brooke Aldrich joined the team in late 2007. She originally trained as an artist, but while volunteering at a primate sanctuary in 1999 decided that primate welfare and conservation was the right path for her to follow. Since then she has worked or volunteered at numerous rescue centres on three continents and been an active campaigner for primate welfare. She met Sam and Noga Shanee at Oxford Brookes University while studying for her MSc in primate conservation. In 2006 Brooke conducted a study of the Andean titi monkey (Callicebus oenanthe) at the Tarangue reserve in northern Peru owned and protected by the Peruvian/French conservation organisation IKAMA Peru.