Laura attended graduate school at Boston University, as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow. Her major fields of study were: International Business and Advanced Economics. She was also accepted to the Mason Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for a degree in Master of Public Administration. She obtained her Broker's license in real estate for Virginia and became a lifetime top producer of the NVAR Multi Million Dollar Sales Club. She is an active member of the Virginia Association of Realtors, Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors