Mary Laurin Brunson joined Children’s Law Center as an investigator in 2004 and now serves as CLC’s director of investigations. She graduated from the University of South Carolina in May 2004 with a Master of Public Administration degree. During graduate school, Mary Laurin interned at the Center for Capital Litigation, South Carolina’s death penalty resource center, where she investigated death penalty cases and served as a legal assistant. Mary Laurin earned a BS degree in Political Science and a BGS degree in Social Sciences from Francis Marion University in 2001.