Laura DeLuca is a faculty member in the Sewall Residential Academic Program and the anthropology department at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder), where she teaches courses on refugees, Africa, social entrepreneurship and international development. DeLuca directs the Global Seminar, a study-abroad program in Tanzania at CU-Boulder, and she held a core faculty position in Peace Studies and Environmental Studies at Naropa University. She has done fieldwork in Tanzania and was a Peace Corps teacher in Western Kenya. She completed two tours with the Fulbright Specialist Program in South Africa and Cameroon. Laura DeLuca is a co-editor of the book Building Peace from Within: An Examination of Community-based Peacebuilding and Transitions in Africa. Laura lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her family and dog, Pika.