Laura moved to Charlotte in 2020 and currently serves as the Executive Director of Project Outpour, a local nonprofit providing showers and hygiene services to our neighbors in need. She first started working with individuals moving through homelessness while volunteering at a soup kitchen in Dallas, Texas in 2010. Shortly after, she returned to college and earned her Master’s in Public Affairs while transitioning to a career in nonprofit administration. While working at a homeless shelter, she had the opportunity to really get to know the people in the shelter and their stories, and the many unique challenges that come with being without housing. Since then, she has been focusing her efforts on ending homelessness through outreach, developing programs, and raising funds. She believes collaboration between service providers is a key to solving homelessness and she is excited to get more connected to the amazing people doing the work in Charlotte.