Laura Rockefeller Chasin

Laura Rockefeller Chasin
Born	Laura Spelman Rockefeller 1936
Died	2015 (aged 79) Cambridge, MA
Nationality	American
Occupation	Philanthropist and founder of the Public Conversations Project
Known for	Philanthropy and member of the Rockefeller family
Children	3
Parent(s)	Laurance Spelman Rockefeller and Mary French

Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1936–2015) was an American philanthropist. She was the eldest child of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French (1910–1997), and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. She has two younger sisters, Marion, Lucy Aldrich Rockefeller, and a younger brother, Laurance Spelman Rockefeller Jr.. Her patrilineal great-grandfather was Standard Oil's co-founder John D. Rockefeller and her matrilineal great-grandfather was Frederick H. Billings, a president of Northern Pacific Railway. Both of her grandmothers, Mary Billings French and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, were important to the early development of YWCA USA. Chasin is known as the founder, former executive director, and former board member of the Public Conversations Project in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Chasin was raised in New York City. She graduated from the Brearley School in Manhattan and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She received a B.A. magna cum laude in Art History from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. in Government from Harvard University, and an M.S.W. from Simmons College (Massachusetts) School of Social Work. She is trained in couple and family therapy and psychodrama.