Laura is Vice President of Democracy at the Local Policy Lab. She is also a Leadership in Government Fellow with the Open Society Foundations. Most recently she served as Chief Democracy Officer for New York City, leading DemocracyNYC, a mayoral initiative whose mission is to increase voter participation and civic engagement. In 2021, she led a citywide campaign to educate voters on a new voting system called Ranked Choice Voting, reaching an estimated 90 percent of New Yorkers.

Prior to her city service, Laura spent five years as a senior advisor and special counsel to the New York State Attorney General.

Previously, Laura worked as Chief Counsel to the New York State Senate and clerked for Rebecca Pallmeyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.