Laura Bennett is counsel in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the SEC, Laura was counsel in the Washington D.C. office of King & Spalding LLP, where she served as chair of the firm’s LGBT Affinity Group. She previously served on the board of directors of Rainbow Families, a non-profit organization that provides social and educational programming for LGBT families in the Washington D.C. area, from 2015-2017 and served as the vice chair of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission for Howard County, Maryland from 2013-2015. Laura earned her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2001 and her law degree from the George Washington University Law School in 2004.