She also rose to Picket Captain in CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), attended New York University (NYU), and took graduate courses at Bank Street College of Education.

The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

[15] In 1978 the Women's History Research Center established the National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape in Berkeley, California, with Laura X as director.

[16] In 1979 Laura X led a successful campaign to make marital rape a crime in California.

[18] In September 1999 Laura X published her memoir "Accomplishing the Impossible: an Advocate's Notes from the Successful Campaign to Make Marital and Date Rape a Crime in All 50 U.S. States and Other Countries" in Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal.

[19][20] As Laura Rand Orthwein, was a debutante in 1959 who was crowned Queen of the Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, Missouri.