Laure Dillon was born and raised in southern California where she was educated. She co-wrote screenplays with her former husband there before spending the next two and a half decades living on the Big Sur Coast of northern California. She and Julie Caldwell met there. Ms. Dillon became an active and life-long environmental activist as a result of engaging in an intense and successful community effort to preserve the magnificent beauty and wilderness qualities of Big Sur for present and future generations. It was in that process that she learned the value and potent synergy of combining grassroots organizing efforts with big picture visioning and strategic action planning through consensus building. She considers herself an artist and social activist. Ms. Dillon thereafter became active in politics as a member of then-Assemblyman Sam Farr's staff (now Congressman Sam Farr).

For the past 11 years, she has lived in Honolulu, Hawaii where she worked as a legislative aide to two state senators at the Hawaii State Legislature. She is the co-founder and a former Board member of The Hawaiian-Environmental Alliance (KAHEA). Most recently, she was the executive director of nonprofits Hawaii Clean Elections and Hawaii Elections Project. These organizations are endeavoring to create sufficient community and legislative support to see legislation passed by the state House and Senate for the public funding of election campaigns in Hawaii. This is a crucial first step to put the public agenda before the corporate agenda that will allow more humane and Earth-protective policies to emerge.

She is the Co-Founder of Emerging Futures Network with Julie Caldwell.