Laura Feldman brings her skills as a teacher to educating senior groups and activists across the country. She is a native Washingtonian. Demystifying politics, personalizing it and making it fun is one of her goals.

She has been a grassroots organizer for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare for over 20 years. Prior to coming to the National Committee, she organized national programming for the National Science Foundation under a special education grant, which propelled her out of the classroom, and into the public arena.

Ms. Feldman graduated from American University . She is the past president of the Southern Gerontological Society, on the Board of Trustees for the Florida Silver Haired Legislature , was the first Policy Chair for GROWS , The (Grassroots Organization For The Well Being of Seniors,) was a Board member of the Maryland Gerontological Association, the Virginia Council on Aging and NANASP (the National Association of Nutrition and Service Providers.) She was appointed to the Seniors Cabinet of the Montgomery County Council of Maryland.