Laura Porter
First name:
Laura
Last name:
Porter
Role in EJUSA:
Staff
Position:
Director of Organizing
E-mail:
laurap [at] ejusa [dot] org
Phone:
(914) 275-2631
Staff location:
National Office staff
Photo:
Why contact this staff member?:
Laura provides overall direction to our state campaigns and our national organizing. Contact her to get involved in state campaigns in New York or nationally, or if you have connections to law enforcement, murder victims’ family members, or conservatives.
When it comes to organizing, Laura is the master. She once visited her child's preschool to give an impromptu lesson in civic action, and she helped the students organize a protest complete with picket signs, drums, tambourines, and chanting to get snack time reinstated. (The kids won, of course.) Laura brought that same spirit to EJUSA’s state partners and field program when she joined our team in 2008. Before that, as Deputy Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, Laura and her grassroots team defeated the death penalty in 2005 and have kept the state death penalty-free ever since. Laura has also assisted campaigns for the League of Women Voters and New Yorkers for Verified Voting. She was a Public Defender with the Legal Aid Society for twelve years and even worked as a legal correspondent for MTV!
