Meet Laura

Matria House was founded by Laura, a sociologist, mother of three, and bonus mom to two teenagers. After experiencing three very different and deeply challenging postpartum seasons, Laura felt how much women need spaces that nourish, support, and celebrate them in community. Matria House is her way of reimagining home, connection, and care — creating a space that brings more joy, ease, and belonging to women and families navigating modern life. She is re-focusing her purpose toward creating meaningful change around the systemic challenges impacting women’s well-being, including isolation, burnout, unequal domestic labor, and the invisible mental load so many women carry every day.

Laura brings an interdisciplinary background to this work, combining experience in socio-economic development, community building, international field research, event coordination and facilitation, intercultural dialogue, and systems thinking. She received a Master’s of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University with academic and field experience focused on economic development, energy policy, governance, and community systems. She received a Bachelor’s of Arts from Hampshire College in a self-designed program centered around political economy of petro-states, conducting field research in Venezuela related to social services and economic development with a focus on community health programs. Her work and volunteer experiences have included humanitarian relief, education, and community-centered initiatives both locally and internationally. Laura merges her professional experience with her personal experience navigating birth trauma and postpartum depression, unfair distribution of domestic labor in her own household, and blending intercultural backgrounds and values in parenting.

Laura, and Matria House, is inspired by books such as Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and many hours sitting alone in fantastic children’s play cafes watching her children enjoy themselves but feeling bored and lonely while scrolling on social media. As a mother, Laura also understands firsthand how deeply women need spaces that honor both individuality and interdependence — places where children are not treated as interruptions to community life, and where women are allowed to exist as whole people beyond their roles and responsibilities. Matria House reflects Laura’s belief that modern women deserve more than survival in isolation. They deserve places to gather across generations, exchange wisdom, share practical support, celebrate life’s transitions, have deep conversation, create meaningful friendships, and rediscover joy, rest, and personal identity alongside one another.