Laura Crowe joined the Smith Center in 2024. As the Special Projects Coordinator, she provides leadership and project management to a range of Smith Center activities and programs. This includes events planning and management, working with Advancement to engage with alumni and donors, growing Herbert College's first-year study abroad programming, and other special projects related to global programming at UTIA.

Crowe is a certified 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.