Laura Monn Ginsburg

Laura Monn Ginsburg's greatest asset is time management. Laura is a partner and principal at Apparatus, a women-owned, women-run public affairs business she co-founded in 2016 after spending a decade in corporate marketing at software companies ranging from $0 start-ups to $3 billion multi-national outfits. Her company's mission-level commitment is to help advance a cleaner environment, a fairer economy, and a more just society by offering services exclusively to clients and projects that seek to serve the common good. When not running her company, Laura's running and sitting on various nonprofit boards. She is currently the board chair of National Council of Jewish Women, Inc., a Trustee of The Blake School Board of Trustees, and an executive committee member of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce. Past nonprofit roles include National Council of Jewish Women MN (2018-2020 chair), the Citizens League (2021 board chair and 2020 interim executive director), and the Junior League of Minneapolis, MN. She is an advisory board member of Love Takes Root (education in Haiti) and Move Minneapolis (transportation equity). Laura joined the Junior League of Minneapolis in 2008, serving consecutive positions of VP Marketing, VP Fundraising, President Elect, and President in 2014-2015. The JLM was the first board on which Laura ever served, she credits the Junior League with her interest in board leadership as well as training to be an effective board member. Outside the board room and office, Laura lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Elliot, whom she met in her first year at Carleton College. They have a son, Harold, who has a great sense of humor and an indisputable grasp of sarcasm, and two somewhat-behaved dogs, Zoe and Arby G.