Lauren is a cross-functional member of Reboot, supporting the team across project and organizational growth initiatives. She has a particular focus on service, systems, programs, and policy design.

Lauren joins Reboot fresh out of design studio experience in branding and print publication at Paperwhite Studio. Earlier, she designed and led a series of workshops for high school students aiming to prevent substance abuse through the use of design methodology with Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems. Lauren also developed a framework expanding on the intersections of social science research and socially-focused design. Her humble approach to design thinking has included extensive research on keeping social design grounded in communities.

An international traveller at heart, Lauren has experience in a range of diverse environments. She researched, wrote, filmed and produced a documentary entitled “Missing Seeds” concerning the rights and working conditions of banana workers in Nicaragua as a grantee of the Projects for Peace Foundation. Lauren was previously an eighth-grade science teacher at Saint John Mary International School in Saraburi, Thailand, where she designed a sustainability action plan for the school. She has also volunteered extensively with the Center for Development in Central America in both the US and Nicaragua.

Lauren studied sociology and environmental studies at Bucknell University and holds a Masters of Arts degree in Social Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. When she’s not on the hunt for the spiciest hot sauce or the strongest cortado in Brooklyn, she’s headed back to her hometown in Northern New Jersey for a good hike or water ski run.