Laura joined BAA in 1992 via The Hundredth Monkey project. With a passion for healthy people and planet, she founded projects like the Peaceable Plate School Lunch Program, BikeWeek, the Environmental Eating Action Team (EEAT), and most famously produced more than ten years of Decadent Dinners.

In the mid-1990s she was BAA’s Special Projects Coordinator, and later served as Co-Executive Director with Susan Stansbury. Laura popularized the saying “If it ain’t fun, it don’t get done!” oft-heard around BAA.

‍Post BAA

Laura continued working with Acterra on food issues and as Database Manager until 2011. She published a book, Cool Cuisine, Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming, in 2008, and in 2024 celebrated 20 years in business as chef and corporate educator for Laura Stec Innovative Cuisine, and 11 years writing “The Food Party!”, a column for the Palo Alto Weekly and Menlo Park Almanac.