Laura is the Director of Saving Ocean Wildlife (https://savingoceanwildlife.org).

Saving Ocean Wildlife was formed to protect the ocean wildlife that reside or transit through the Pacific Ocean waters off of the West Coast of North America in collaboration with NOAA and our other partners. SOW’s scope currently spans from Alaska to Mexico with our headquarters located in Southern California. We create partnerships with the scientists, policy makers and people like you to save ocean wildlife. SOW is engaging the community to get eyes on the ocean to help report on these animals.

Recruited from New York, where she received her masters degree in environmental policy from Columbia University, she moved to Santa Cruz, CA in 2006 to take the position as Executive Director of Save Our Shores.

She led the organization in working with the community, local/state governments and businesses to raise awareness about the threats to our ocean and successfully advocated for policies to improve the health of our oceans.

When Laura left Save Our Shores in 2015 she started her own consulting firm and since then has assisted various other non-profits, for profit firms, and government agencies in environmental projects.