Laura is a photograph conservator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Prior to starting at the Gallery, from 2019-2021, Laura was the Claire W. and Richard P. Morse Fellow for Advanced Training in Paper Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. From 2017-2019, Laura was the Craigen W. Bowen Fellow at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums, and from 2016-2017 was a graduate intern in photograph conservation at the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library. In 2017, Laura received her M.S. in photograph conservation and her M.A. in art history from The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She has undertaken projects at the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York Historical Society, and NYU Libraries. Her past research includes studies of James Van Der Zee's portrait photographs, the light-sensitivity of paper negatives, Gardner’s Sketchbook of the War, and the darkroom practices of Irving Penn. Her recent publications include “X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Frédéric Flachéron’s Paper Negatives, 1848-1852” in the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation.