Laura Worline

Laura has experience in pilot program creation and execution revolving around equity access to education, barrier removal for BIPOC students and ALICE population, ex-offender career support, and criminal record expungement. Several of these programs have been recognized by the federal office of child support and enforcement, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, and Michigan's legislature as restorative NCP programs to move State/Nation wide. Laura’s student success pilot programs were implemented into a D1 University’s programming, with her holistic student success coaching model still being in circulation at several Universities. Laura was a key player in Michigans first expungement program in existence, with hosting the largest Expungement fair to date in Michigan. A partnership between multiple community partners (government, nonprofit, and community groups). Laura also has engaged in workforce education programming surrounding refugee career readiness, noncustodial parent career coaching, and ALICE population trade exposure.

 

Having played an important role in the creation of educational support programs, as well as in marginalized community workforce innovation/reform pilots, Laura has a strong sense of stakeholder engagement, pipeline creation, and capacity building. Laura brings vital skills of community building, implementation of plan to program, and a strong desire to executing impactful work across sectors.