Laura Banas
New York, New York
(203) 581-1455
Creative Operations Management
Marketing Leader
Select Projects
Laura Banas is a creative operations and marketing leader with 10+ years of experience running the workflows behind creative teams across fashion, tech, and art institutions. Based in New York City, she is currently the Assistant Director of Digital Communications at Pratt Institute, where she leads people and projects, bringing a strategic edge to digital communications.
Previously, she founded MALL, an e-commerce platform for 75+ independent designers from around the world. She led all facets of the business, including creative strategy, curation, vendor and talent relationships, photo and video production, digital marketing, and pop-up activations. The project was featured in publications such as The New York Times and Vogue, and attracted celebrity clients including Bella Hadid and Dua Lipa.
She believes that operational excellence enables creative clarity.
Off the clock, Laura is an avid recreational tennis player. Most of the season happens on the courts at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, and once or twice a year she’ll head to Total Tennis camp in Upstate New York with friends — it's exactly as intense and as fun as it sounds. She also volunteers with City Harvest at food distribution sites around Brooklyn and at local Brooklyn farmers markets, loading unsold food onto trucks for redistribution across the city.