Dr. Laura H. Manyweather is a nationally respected reentry practitioner, scholar, and systems strategist with more than 25 years of experience across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. She is the lead consultant for Tetracore Consulting LLC, a certified woman-owned small business, where she works with government agencies, educational institutions, and community-based organizations.
Dr. Manyweather is widely recognized for her pioneering work in reentry and justice-impacted student success. She founded the first Reentry Program at West Los Angeles College, establishing a comprehensive student-centered model that supports formerly incarcerated and system-impacted individuals through outreach, enrollment, counseling alignment, noncredit-to-credit pathways, leadership development, and certificate attainment. She also hosted the first Reentry Awareness Fair at West Los Angeles College.
Her reentry work extends regionally and system-wide. Dr. Manyweather is actively engaged with the Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership (LARRP) as the chair of the Education Committee to advance postsecondary access, workforce pathways, and policy alignment for justice-impacted individuals across Los Angeles County. She also works in partnership with the Justice, Care and Opportunities Department (JCOD), supporting reentry-focused initiatives that intersect education, workforce development, and community stabilization. Dr. Manyweather is also the board secretary for Alliance Higher Education in Prison.
Dr. Manyweather currently teaches business, finance, business law, and management at Trade Tech and West LA College.
Dr. Manyweather earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills, her MBA in Finance from Argosy University, and her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from California State University, Long Beach, with an emphasis on Social Justice. Her doctoral research focused on critical race theory, the prison industrial complex, and formerly incarcerated Black males in higher education, and she has co-authored and written over 6 articles on how to better serve system-impacted individuals and presented on reentry, equity-centered leadership, and institutional responsibility in supporting formerly incarcerated learners.
Dr. Manyweather is a public speaker, author, wife, mother of three, and world traveler, bringing lived experience, intellectual rigor, and unwavering commitment to advancing justice-impacted communities through education, policy, and practice.
