Most of the NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia blog’s post are written by our staff. When they are not, the guest author’s name is indicated at the top of the post.
Here are some of our current and past guest bloggers!
About Laura
Although she has lived all over, Laura is a D.C. transplant who calls North Carolina home. She is a devotee of college basketball who may or may not spend her spring and summer counting the days until basketball season and watching YouTube videos of Tar Heel legend Vince Carter.
A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, she studied journalism and political science before becoming a business reporter for newspapers in Georgia and North Carolina. She now lives in D.C. and works as a proposal writer. In her spare time she likes to listen to The Temptations and Gladys Knight, watch bad sci-fi movies, cook and volunteer her writing or time to NARAL and service groups such as Greater D.C. Cares.
Laura appreciates:
- Motown
- Indiana Jones (not the fourth one)
- Hippos
- Coffee
- Neko Case
- Bojangles’
About Kerry
Kerry, a recent graduate of Columbia University, grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. While in college, she had an internship at a civil rights law firm which sparked her passion for women’s rights advocacy. She moved to Washington, DC after graduation to work in consulting, and enjoys volunteering as a crisis counselor for sexual assault victims and working as a clinic escort in her spare time. She hopes to attend law school in the near future so she can do more women’s rights work.
Kerry appreciates:
- Vegan cooking
- TLC
- Wiener dogs
- Kramerbooks & Afterwords: Bookstore and Cafe
About Brett
Blogging Alumni
Leigh
Leigh was the Development, Events, and Social Media intern summer 2011 at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. She graduated in May of 2011 from the University of South Carolina with bachelor’s degrees in French and International Studies, with an emphasis on European Studies. Though Leigh is originally from Richmond, Virginia, she loves The Palmetto State, Gamecock football, Carolina-style barbeque and South Carolina politics. Leigh is an avid traveler and is always up for an adventure!
Leigh Appreciates:
- The Northern Neck
- Family
- The East Side Gallery
- Jamie Oliver’s cookbook, “Jamie Does…”
- Iced Coffee
Brooke
Brooke was the Program and Communications Intern summer 2011 at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. She attends Claremont McKenna, a small liberal arts college outside of Los Angeles. She is dual majoring in History and Literature with a minor in Human Rights Studies. A native of Boise, Idaho, Brooke enjoys skiing, bragging about knowing all the words to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” and embodying the “Blue Girl, Red State” slogan.
Brooke Appreciates:
- Anything that contains avocado
- Learning to rock climb
- Arrested Development
- Traveling
- Boba Tea
Marissa
Marissa Boyce was a policy intern summer 2011 at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, where she used her googling skills to work on a research project with fellow intern Rahul. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in French at the University of Mary Washington, Marissa decided to pursue her law degree, attending the Catholic University of America.
Marissa spends her free time traveling back to her hometown to take advantage of the many wineries, and spending time with her ridiculously overbearing family.
Marissa appreciates:
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Rugby
- Caffeine
- Christmas
- Paula Deen
Rahul
Rahul was an intern at NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, working on the Judicial Bypass Project. He was born and raised in India and has lived in New Delhi, Singapore, Indiana, Texas and Virginia. Before starting law school he worked as a Computer Engineer at National Oilwell Varco in Houston, TX. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and is currently finishing his J.D. from University of Richmond School of Law. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball, reading (non-fiction) and listening to Rock n’ Roll records. He also wishes he was alive during the ’60s so he could attend Woodstock.
Rahul appreciates:
- Plato and Platypus Walk into a Bar
- Pink Floyd
- Led Zeppelin
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Dexter’s Laboratory
Autumn
Autumn Reinhardt Simpson is a fiber-obsessed archivist and writer originally from Kennewick, Washington. After falling in love with the U.K via Duran Duran at the tender age of four, she later pursued her dream of studying all things British by getting her BA in Humanities (History and Literature with a decidedly British focus) from Washington State University. She completed a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Washington in 2007 and, content to ride this wave of nerdom to the finish, received her Master of Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archival Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2008. She spends all of her hard earned peanuts on travel to the U.K. and unnecessary fabric and yarn purchases.
Autumn currently volunteers her time with Planned Parenthood and as a one-woman clinic defense team in Richmond, Virginia.
Autumn appreciates:
- Sewing, knitting and most things involving needles
- Ludicrously long Amazon wish lists
- Katha Pollitt
- Landmark Trust U.K.
- Writing local feminist history
Joey
Joey joined NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia as the political, program and communications manager in July of 2010. In January of 2012 he stepped down as deputy director of advocacy and communications to head back to Colorado and fight for choice in the Centennial State. He previously lived in Utah and worked as public affairs coordinator for Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in rhetoric (with a minor in mass communication) from Georgia College & State University and a Master of Arts in speech communication (with a certificate in women’s studies) from Colorado State University. He spends most of his free time making and enjoying jokes (especially puns), making and enjoying music, and reading comic books. Sometimes he eats food, too.
Joey appreciates:
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