Laura Crowe joined the Smith Center in 2024. As the Special Projects Coordinator, she provides leadership and project management to a range of international programs and activities at the UTIA Smith Center for International Sustainable Agriculture. This includes study abroad program development, event planning and management, communications and engagement with alumni and donors, and other special projects related to global programming at UTIA.

Crowe is a Project Management Professional (2024), she holds a master’s degree in ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia (2020), and a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Toronto (2014). Outside the Smith Center, she serves as bookkeeper of a non-profit arts organization that works with gamelan musicians and composers in Indonesia. Her international experience includes fieldwork in Indonesia, where she studied Balinese gamelan gendér wayang and conducted research on the ensembles performance and pedagogical practices.