Laurie Marshall is an author, artist and innovator with 40+ years’ experience empowering youth and adults through creative collaboration with her “Peace Building through Art inspired by Nature” approach. A visionary educator, she has served mostly low-income children, families and their schools as an Arts Integration and Project Based Learning specialist. Founder of Unity Through Creativity Foundation and the Singing Tree Project, Laurie is a certified K-12 Art and Social Studies Teacher with training in the Waldorf Curriculum, Conversational Intelligence, Peace Literacy and Outward Bound. Her many clients have included NASA, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Interior, the U.S. Botanical Gardens, and many public schools, hospitals and prisons around the country, and, every year for much of the last two decades, Laurie has facilitated and exhibited Singing Tree murals at Bioneers.