Laura Henry

For most of her career, Laura Henry has been a university educator where her globalized education and the demands of binational/bilingual family life have taken her. Raised in Eugene, OR, Laura has returned to her PNW roots after a long stint as a professor in the new professional law schools Korea while raising her bilingual son. But it was the Masters in Economics program at the University of Washington that took her to Korea in the first place and led her to life shaping family-life decisions, (marrying a foreign national,) that propelled her into teaching, starting in the Executive MBA program at Seoul National University. After the pressures of Asian big city life and continuous cultural adaptation, these days Laura is relishing coming back to the joys of her childhood: math, the woods, and music. She feels wiser having witnessed from the inside the breathtaking modernization of Korea, which continues to innovate its way out of its status as a resource-scarce country sandwiched between Great Powers, particular with regards to green economic development. Locally, Laura volunteers with the Government Affairs Committee of the Clean Tech Alliance advocating for the energy transition as a means to combat climate change. In 2022, she completed a Certificate in Data Analysis from the Professional Continuing Education Program at the University of Washington, seeking to apply her passion for addressing climate change and statistics-based decision-making.

Laura is a member of the Amabile Choir and a dedicated volunteer violist with the Poulsbo Community Orchestra.