Laura Romanin ThomasLaura Thomas was born in 1952 in Nurnberg, Germany, grew up in Oakland, California and graduated in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley in Journalism. She spent 35 years working on northern California daily newspapers, the Davis Enterprie, Sacramento Bee, Napa Register, Vallejo Times-Herald, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle as well as the national magazine, U.S. News and World Report. Read More Read Less