Laura Winter serves as Executive Director of MOCAN. Prior to this role, Laura was Executive Director of St. Louis Graduates, a network of K-12 and higher education, youth-serving nonprofit organizations, business and philanthropy working to eliminate equity gaps in degree completion. Laura’s career has focused on guiding and supporting collaborations of nonprofit organizations and funders to improve outcomes for children and youth. Previous roles included serving as a grant officer for the Danforth Foundation and Vice President of Communications for the St. Louis Regional Chamber. Laura is a graduate of the University of Missouri-St. Louis with a Master’s degree in Public Policy Administration, and of Boston College with a Bachelor’s degree in English. She is a graduate of the program for state and local government officials at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.