Laura MacCleery

As senior director for policy and advocacy, Laura brings more than two decades of experience leading impactful social change efforts to her work on behalf of the Latino community. Her focus areas include democracy and electoral integrity, equitable and accountable approach to AI, an inclusive child tax credit, policy initiatives on homeownership and economic inclusion and effective food and nutrition policies.  

She also served as vice president for consumer policy and mobilization at Consumer Reports, director of government relations at the Center for Reproductive Rights, deputy director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice and Congress Watch director at Public Citizen. 

She leverages legislative, research, legal strategies and effective management to achieve results. Her past work includes successful campaigns and legal strategies to ban a deadly dietary supplement, enact legislation on federal consumer complaints databases for product safety, label crash test results on cars and sesame as an allergen in foods, pass auto safety standards that substantially reduced deaths in the U.S. and block school nutrition rollbacks that impacted 30 million kids, two-thirds of whom were lower-income.  

A graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of Virginia, she clerked for Justice Gregory Hobbs on the Colorado Supreme Court.