Laura is a retired trial lawyer. She and her husband are permanent residents of San Miguel. A life-long Democrat, she was part of a group in a conservative suburb of Columbus Ohio that formed their own grassroots organization to campaign for John Kerry.

She was a neighborhood team leader for Obama and opened a GOTV headquarters in a largely Somalian and Hispanic neighborhood. She has registered voters, run phone banks and canvasses for federal, state and local candidates and issues in Ohio since that time. She  trained canvassers and was canvass leader in a Get Out the Vote headquarters in Ohio for the 2018 midterms.

She has been involved and on the Executive Committee of Dems Abroad San Miguel for over 10 years. She has served as Secretary and Parliamentarian of the group and as Chair for 2023-2024. She was also in charge of Get Out the Vote in 2024.