Laura Harris

Program Lead, Translator
Criterion Institute

Laura is passionate about working collaboratively to create systemic and sustainable social change. An intense curiosity for how to create a world defined by equity and fairness has shaped Laura’s diverse career across arts, community, government, and social innovation spaces.

Throughout her career, Laura has worked with systems including education, justice, health, finance, child protection, and refugee services. She has been responsible for designing and implementing a variety of community-based programs, managing advocacy initiatives, event curation, strategic planning, organizational design, media and communications, and fundraising. Organizations Laura previously worked for include Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, the Australia Council for the Arts, and Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific.

Having started her career in the field of social change arts and cultural development, with experience working with remote communities in Australia, Laura has a particular interest in the decolonization project in settler societies and placing community at the center of decision making. She has a BA in Sociology and Theatre Studies from the University of Melbourne, completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship and is an alum of Social Leadership Australia’s Adaptive Leadership program. Laura is based in Melbourne, Australia.