JOURNALIST - ACTIVIST - STRATEGIST
Dedicated to storytelling for systems change and abolishing the conditions of voicelessness
Inspiring strength and building community
Lauren brings more than a decade of award-winning journalism and entrepreneurism to her role as Senior Director of Strategy and Communications at The Hope Center—a research action center dedicated to education equity.
She is the content series editor of Free Future, a collaboration between The Meteor and The Ford Foundation, which explores the systemic public health crisis that is gender-based violence.
Based in the Middle East for almost a decade, she was one of the first women columnists at Foreign Policy magazine and The GroundTruth Project’s inaugural international correspondent.
She co-founded Foreign Policy Interrupted, an initiative dedicated to amplifying women-identifying voices in international affairs, and SchoolCycle, a United Nations Foundation initiative that provides bikes for adolescent girls to get to school in Malawi and Guatemala.
"Don't be a voice for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness." Viet Thanh Nguyen
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"Don't be a voice for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness." Viet Thanh Nguyen -
