I’m Laura. I’m an auntie, an educator, a guide, and a music lover who somehow ended up with songs in the world. I live in the Washington D.C. area — a native Washingtonian who has left a handful of times (upstate New York, New York City, California for graduate school) and been pulled back every time.
By day I work in higher education. By heart I work with Brothers Koren as their Journey and Community Manager, helping run a program called the Songwriter’s Journey — something I did myself as a participant in 2020, and that changed the trajectory of my life. Now I have the honor of guiding others through it. I talk to people before they consider joining, hold the group container alongside the Brothers, and get to watch people find their voice in real time. It’s a lot. It’s everything.
When I’m not working, I’m going to the movies, taking walks, and listening to podcasts — usually about reality TV, occasionally about polygamy and Mormonism, neither of which I am. I collect plushies and Labubus. I drink Diet Coke. I am child-free and single by choice and somehow also a complete sucker for love and romance. I am, like most people, trying to figure it out.
This site is for people who found my music on Spotify, for Brothers Koren clients and community members who want to know more, and for the occasional student who Googled me and ended up here — hello, I see you. Mostly it’s a place for parts of me to live. I’ve spent a long time figuring out how to use my voice. This is one more way I’m trying.
The longer version of how music became everything? That’s in the writing.