Lauria is the Assistant Director of Hokie Wellness at Virginia Tech. Whether in the classroom teaching, crafting school-wide awareness programs, or supervising her 30-student peer education team, Laurie is responsible for both educating students on health issues as well as teaching students how to become educators themselves . She tells interested students to get experience with peer-to-peer education as soon as possible to become comfortable learning, discussing, and then teaching big issues to fellow students.