Laura Kariuki

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Summary

Laura Kariuki is an American actress whose screen work includes Black Lightning, The Wonder Years, and Along for the Ride. Her roles include a superhero and a young woman in a black middle-class family navigating the late 1960s. In interviews about The Wonder Years, she has praised seeing Black joy and black people’s experiences represented on television, and said the show could help viewers feel nostalgia for being black in the 1960s. No public statements on party politics, DEI roles, or organized activism are on record.