Laura strives to continually engage with systems thinking and community-based design to advance projects towards healthy, energy efficient, and adaptable spaces. Laura’s diverse work experience includes solar electric system design and installation, natural ventilation and daylighting analysis, documentation of historic rammed earth buildings in the high Atlas Mountains of Morocco, biodiesel production, an off-grid design/build company in Colorado, a research fellow at the Energy Studies in Buildings Lab (ESBL) at the University of Oregon, a practicing architect of net zero energy buildings, and a community facilitator around climate resilience.

Laura pursues solutions that cross conventional disciplines. Since 2013, Laura has served on the board of the Vermont Green Building Network, working to update and expand the access and recognition of the state’s greenest buildings. Laura is also a Regenerative Practitioner and seeks to find the potential of the community or project and provides frameworks for developing the place-based system catalysts that will continue to grow and evolve with the inherent energy that they create. This holistic way of thinking about program development and community engagement spreads beyond any individual or project.

When not behind a desk or facilitating a community conversation, Laura can be found exploring the forests and rivers around her home in Fayston by foot, bike, boat or skis with her family.