Laura Wedderburn,
Board Member
“Emphatic about education”
A graduate of Howard Medical School, Wedderbern has been practicing medicine for 22 years in Northern California. After the earthquake in 2010, she travelled to Haiti with fellow clinician Lynn Meadows to support emergency disaster relief, and also provided vital volunteer coordination services in the months following. As an international traveller and West Indies native herself, she is emphatic about the role of education in alleviating the cycle of poverty — at Hearthstone, she is proud to be able to help young black women get opportunities they might not have had otherwise. “We want girls to reach hands out, to plant her own food or build her own house,” she says.