Laura Sands is a Partner at K·Coe Isom where she leads the firm’s work with production agriculture and food and agricultural supply chains. She spearheads many of K·Coe Isom’s sustainability initiatives and builds broad alliances to enact policies that address global concerns and emerging public policy challenges. She develops strategic messaging strategies, creates valuable connections among those with diverse interests. She leads a team of diverse experts who work to develop, measure and assure key supply chain sustainability initiatives at the nexus of environmental, social and business improvement needs.
Laura has led national initiatives such as developing national carbon policy, a sustainability framework for the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy and National Milk Producers Federation, has advised diverse organizations such as Agree, Environmental Defense Fund, The Nature Conservancy, the Bipartisan Policy Center, as well as numerous global agricultural businesses and cooperatives. Laura grew up on a farm in Northwestern Minnesota. A mother of two young adults, she is passionate about solving food insecurity and is a founder of The Food Group which currently serves 600 school age children in several local communities in Wyoming.