Laura Bono is a Board Member, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the National Autism Association (NAA). The mission of NAA is to educate and empower families affected by autism and other neurological disorders, and to raise public and professional awareness that autism is not a lifelong incurable genetic disorder but one that is biomedically definable and treatable. Along with NIEHS and SafeMinds, she helped to plan and execute the Environmental Factors in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Symposium. She graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Journalism with a minor in Marketing. She currently serves as Director of Marketing to The Parent Institute and has over 25 years business experience in marketing. The youngest of her three children, Jackson, is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Laura resides in Durham, NC.