Laura Kirkpatrick reports on diplomacy and foreign policy, as well as foreign and U.S. politics. She has written for PassBlue, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women Around the World blog, The Buffalo News, Gannett publications, and various think tanks. A graduate of Hamilton College, Laura obtained a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and had a fellowship with Columbia Business School’s Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics and what is now the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise.

Laura López González is a freelance health journalist and editor with 15 years of experience covering health in the global south from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Al Jazeera, the Guardian, and El Pais.

Laura Martin is a vaccinologist and public health leader with more than 20 years of experience in the end-to-end development of vaccines for poverty related disease, working across industry, government, academia, and global health. As Vaccines Program Director at the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Dr. Martin provides technical and programmatic leadership to the organization’s global health programs that work to expand equitable access to quality-assured vaccines in low- and middle-income countries.

Laura Savage is the executive director of the International Education Funders Group, the largest global network of philanthropies funding education. She was formerly senior education adviser and deputy head of education research at the U.K.’s Department for International Development.

Laura Secorun is an independent journalist covering the climate crisis and its intersection with global development. Based in Barcelona, she previously worked as a foreign correspondent in East Africa and the Middle East, writing about politics and migration for outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.

Laura Turquet is the manager and co-author of U.N. Women’s flagship report, "Progress of the World’s Women." For the past decade, she has worked at U.N. Women leading major research reports that inform the organization’s advocacy objectives and empower civil society and governments to seek and implement change. She is a co-founder of the U.N. Feminist Network and previously worked at various NGOs.

Laura Zambrano is the deputy chief of party for the USAID/Colombia Human Rights Activity, a project managed by Chemonics that supports the Colombian government and civil society to promote a culture of human rights, prevent violations of human rights, and provide effective response to human rights violations once they have occurred. Laura holds an M.A. in international development from Duke University and she brings over 15 years of experience in implementation and oversight of conflict management and humanitarian assistance projects.

Laura Kyrke-Smith is the executive director of the International Rescue Committee in the U.K. She leads IRC’s work to raise funds, raise awareness, and deliver policy and practice change to help people who are caught up in conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. Laura has been with IRC since 2016 as the IRC’s director of communications in Europe. Before joining IRC, Laura was a partner at Portland Communications. She started her career in the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office where she worked as a policy analyst and speechwriter.

Laura Solia Shellaby is the interim deputy director of the Community Health Impact Coalition and an independent consultant supporting international organizations, companies, foundations, and NGOs to achieve their social impact goals. With more than a decade of experience working in the field of global health focused on issues including community health systems, noncommunicable diseases, and health financing, Shellaby specializes in managing multi-sectoral partnerships for collective impact, action-oriented group facilitation, and NGO strategy.