Laura White

Biography

aura’s career has focused on empowering young children and their families. Before joining the MBA program at Oxford Saïd, “Ms. Laura” taught three and four year-old students as a preschool teacher for the District of Columbia Public Schools. She also taught one to four year-olds with autism for the city of DC’s early intervention program. As a former senior intrapreneur and leader of the US Changemaker Schools Network at Ashoka, Laura is passionate about combining her social entrepreneurship experience, her expertise as a highly effective teacher, and her MBA education to make high quality early childhood education and family support available to all families.

Laura is currently launching a startup called Devie, which provides an empathetic, knowledgable early childhood coach in every parent's pocket. By making early childhood development coaching accessible, personalized, and informed by behaviour science, Devie makes early childhood development more equitable.