Laura Smeaton

I went to Trinity University in San Antonio, and then grad school at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. After graduating, I moved to Boston, MA where I've lived ever since and am a biostatistician doing HIV/AIDS research at Harvard School of Public Health. Most of my current projects are international - focusing on helping find better medical interventions for pregnant women with HIV or co-infected with HIV and Hepatitis B in Botswana and South Africa, and for HIV+ folks in other developing countries in southern Africa, India, Thailand, Haiti, Peru and Brazil. When not working, I'm passionate about bicycling (I commute to work via bike), running, and walking in the woods with my retired racing Greyhound, Shadow. Right after the reunion, I'm headed for a week's holiday in Japan (first trip to Asia!). My folks moved back to my hometown, Greenville, South Carolina, in 1993, and so I've not had a chance to be in the Falls for some time! Many thanks to the organizers of this great milestone event- I cannot believe it has been 20 years! Seems like it was yesterday we were roaming the halls of Old High....