Hello, I'm Laura. I joined Richmond Animal Rights recently and volunteered to help Derek and Elise out with the website, so this is just a test post to make sure everything is working for me. I'm a student at Randolph-Macon College but am getting ready to graduate in a few months. I'm an Environmental Studies and Political Science major and hope to enter a career in environmental and animal advocacy. I've been a vegetarian since the age of 12 but only vegan since early 2008.