Laura is a central Arkansas native.  She began working as a volunteer ESL tutor with Literacy Action in 2018 when she led our St. Joe’s ESL class, and tutored individual students. She earned a degree from the University of Central Arkansas in English & TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages).  

Laura divides her time as Program Director between the Little Rock and Conway offices, and can assist students and tutors in both areas. She is very passionate about helping students with their literacy needs and continues to teach ESL classes as a volunteer. 

While still learning, Laura is an intermidiate speaker of Spanish and helps to communicate with our Spanish speaking students.

Roger is excited to be part of Americorps with LACA in Little Rock.  He is also presently a coach and educator for retirement-aged adults.  He has a Masters in Education from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.  Roger says that his commitment to empower children and adults to be the best persons that they already are has manifested in lots of different ways over the years. He has taught children in the classroom and tutored English for many years.  He has coached marginalized adults to access community workforce and wellness services. A professional stage actor and director, he also ran school drama program. Eight years ago, Roger and his wife moved to Little Rock from Delaware. He is very happy to be here where he gardens and gets to just hang out with Hope, his wife, and love life.