Laura Nassri Warren AIA, NCARB

Laura is a multiple award-winning Architect and founder of The Warren Group Architects, Inc. providing full design and project management services trough-out the US and Mexico since March 2004.

She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, and attended Post Graduate Studies Stanford Graduate School of Business as part of the Latino Entrepreneur Co-hort.

Under her leadership, The Warren Group Architects has become the lead architect for many cities in the State of Texas and is the architect of choice for major Healthcare Institutions in Texas and Manufacturing Companies on both sides of the Border.

The Warren Group Architects enjoys the trust of almost 230 clients world-wide to include many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as: SpaceX, Bissell, Emerson, Stanley Black & Decker, MasterBrand, USH, Hydro, Marmon, Killam, and Hunt, who seek her services for projects in both the US and Mexico.

Warren is known in the community for her dedication in leadership Roles in many civic organizations trough-out Texas.  Some examples of her leadership in the community are:

• Vice Chair of the Texas Finance Commission, appointed by Governor Greg Abbott where she also serves in the Texas Financial Education Endowment Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee

• President of STC Foundation Board

• Member of the Texas A&M Foundation International Advisory Board

• Driscoll Children’s Hospital Development Board (Fundraising Chair)

• Executive board member of the Greater Pharr Chamber of Commerce – Treasurer

• Board of Directors of the RGV Partnership

• She is the former chairman of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, McAllen Foreign Trade Zone, McAllen Intermodal, and the McAllen International Museum of Arts and Science (all two-year terms).

• Three -term, President– Rio Grande Valley EasterSeals

• First Woman President of the McAllen South Rotary

Honors and Awards:

• 2024 EasterSeals Humanitarian of the Year award

• Awarded the 2024 Lifestyle Latina Award for her ground-breaking role in providing opportunities to Women in a male dominated field and Community involvement in Texas.

• Awarded 2023 Architect of the Year by the RGV Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers

• Awarded 2023 Project of the Year by the RGV Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers for the city of Pharr Natatorium Project.

• 2023 Luna Award City of Houston Texas Architect of the Year by the Regional Hispanic Contractor Association

• 2023 Luna Award City of Corpus Christi Texas Architect of the Year and Firm of the Year by the Regional Hispanic Contractor Association

• 2021 Businesswoman of the Year by the RGG Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

• McAllen Woman of the Year in 2013

• McAllen Small Business of the Year in 2013

Laura is married to Daniel (Dan) Ogletree and is the proud mother of William Austin Warren and Rebecca Nicole Warren.