Lauren originally came on board in Oct. 2009 for a marketing role and also served as circulation manager for two years.

She began riding in kindergarten, focusing on hunters and equitation for most of that time. She competed in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association while earning her bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric & Communications at Mount St. Mary’s College (Md.) and rode as an IHSA alumni for two years following graduate school at Drexel University (Pa.) where she studied Publication Management.

She doesn’t horse show as much as she used to, but she has aspirations of one day riding her Hanoverian mare With Bells On in the adult hunters. For now she mostly settles on living vicariously through everyone she reads about in the Chronicle.