Given her environmental efforts and advocacy, LaCour-Conant was featured in the #IfThen Exhibit in 2021–2022 which celebrates women innovators in STEM.
[4] Her family is from the Kisatchie Forest area in Louisiana and LaCour-Conant is part of the Isle Brevelle Creole community.
As a teen, she was part of the Student Conservation Association, where she was able to support environmental work in Texas and around the United States.
Post-receiving her Masters, she worked for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority until 2020, where she focused on running community farms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
initiative, in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program.