What does Everyone’s Invited have that others don’t?
Production EXPERIENCE paired with an EXPERTISE in accessibility
Laura Grunfeld, founder and owner of Everyone's Invited, has worked in event planning since 1983 and since 1999 has focused on improving event accessibility. Laura worked for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 
for 10 years. As the festival's Human Resources Director, both patrons and festival staff came to her with questions regarding access to the festival for people with disabilities. Seeing the need, Laura established the Access Program, which received national recognition, and awards from the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. The Jazz Festival's Access Program became a model for event access planning.
After moving from New Orleans back to her hometown in Massachusetts, Laura started Everyone's Invited and has designed and implemented Access Programs for the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee, the Rothbury Festival in Michigan, and the Life is good Festival in Massachusetts.
Laura has also provided consulting and access assessments for several smaller events in Louisiana and in Massachusetts. Before moving exclusively into accessibility consulting, Laura worked in various capacities including event production, fundraising and development, and in human resources management and volunteer program development, for The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Essence Music Festival, New Orleans' WWOZ Community Radio, WERU Community Radio in Maine, and the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of New Orleans.