Laura Aryeh Murawczyk

Laura Aryeh Murawczyk is a longtime advocate for education and the arts. Laura worked at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a research associate, writer, and translator, and at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio at the University of Iowa as a teacher and workshop leader. She has served as an educational advisor with a special focus on early childhood and elementary education in New York City and the Bay Area. 

Laura is an active community volunteer and has served in a variety of roles at The Dalton School, American Overseas School of Rome, Phillips Brooks School, and Crystal Springs Uplands School. Laura is currently Chair of the Board of Directors at the East Palo Alto Academy Foundation, a non-profit organization in East Palo Alto, CA dedicated to student well-being and college and postsecondary success for the students and alumni of East Palo Alto Academy. Laura also serves on the San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves, an international non-profit educational organization that uses lessons of history to support and challenge teachers and students to become upstanders in their communities by standing up to prejudice and injustice. 

At Stanford University, Laura is an active volunteer and has served on the Stanford New York Arts Council and Stanford New York Task Force for Volunteer Engagement, and as Campaign Participation Co-Chair for her 25th Reunion and Co-Chair of her 30th Reunion. Laura has served on the Advisory Council of Stanford’s Graduate School of Education since 2015, and currently serves on Stanford’s Parent and Family Advisory Board along with her husband, Richard. Laura is thrilled to join the Haas Center for Public Service National Advisory Board. Laura earned her BA and MA in English from Stanford University and her MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.