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Laura Bevan

Laura received her BA in Journalism from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee and in 1983 was named Assistant News Director for WVFM and WLKF. She left Lakeland in 1987 to become the Regional Coordinator for the Humane Society of the United States in Tallahassee. Today (2006) she is the Director of the Southeast Regional Office there, a position she has held since 1992. 

Laura’s jurisdiction covers not only the state of Florida, but also Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. She has served as a consultant to humane groups and local governments in improving their local ordinances and shelter facilities, and has lobbied the legislatures of several states in the region to get numerous animal protection laws passed. As chairperson of the Florida Animal Disaster Planning Advisory Committee, she was instrumental in the writing of the “Disaster Planning for Animals” manual published by the Humane Society of the United States.

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