Laura Jordan Bambach

Laura Jordan Bambach is an Australian digital designer, creative director and influential feminist. She resides in London, United Kingdom.

She currently holds a senior position as the creative partner for Mr President and is co-founder of SheSays, a global mentorship and networking group that encourages women to pursue careers in digital marketing. She held the position of president for the global educational charity, D&AD, in 2013–2014. Bambach is the winner of numerous awards, including being ranked number one on The Drum Digerati list of the top 100 most influential digital individuals in the UK in 2014. The Guardian has called her a "digital female icon".

Early life and education Laura Jordan Bambach was born in Canberra, Australia, and grew up on a hobby farm outside Sydney. She attended the James Ruse Agricultural High School and went on to study at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney where she studied photomedia and installation art to the Masters level. She began coding for the WWW in 1994 at university, after the encouragement from her lecturer, the digital artist Linda Dement.

Career She began her creative career in 1994 at Geekgirl, a cyberfeminist magazine started by Rosie Cross. SheSays hosts monthly educational and networking meetups for women in over 30 cities in the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, South America and Asia. Its free mentoring program, called "Who's Your Momma", finds established digital industry executives volunteering to work one-on-one with newcomers for an hour a week. She became creative director and partner with Flo Heiss at Dare in 2012.

Other activities Jordan Bambach became a member of the British educational charity D&AD in 2011 She is presently a member of D&AD's board of trustees.

She founded the Cannt Festival in London as an alternative to the Cannes Lions.

She is a frequent speaker on Internet art. and was quoted in the 2014 book Hacker, Maker, teacher, Thief: Advertising's Next Generation. She teaches hands-on and technical courses in digital media at the university level. In 2011 she and Lariu, founders of SheSays, shared the Greatest Individual Contribution to New Media award at the New Media Age awards ceremony. In 2014 she was ranked number one on The Drum Digerati list of the top 100 most influential digital individuals in the UK. She was also named Individual of the Year 2014 at the Dadis (The Drum Awards for the Digital Industries). In 2015

She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2017.

Personal life Jordan Bambach has one son.