Lauren is a member of Bethesda Friends Meeting and Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She is FCNL’s Deputy General Secretary and the leader of the organization’s Community and Culture team. In this role, she serves as staff clerk and partners with the general secretary on organizational leadership. She offers strategic guidance around FCNL living into its values, particularly as they relate to its Quaker identity and its anti-racism, anti-bias, justice, diversity, equity, and integrity commitments. She is a member of the steering committees for the Quaker Coalition for Uprooting Racism, the Quaker Call, to Action, and Quakers for Peace in Palestine and Israel.

Lauren earned her B.A. in Classical Civilization and Greek from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Global, International, and Comparative History from Georgetown University. She also is a graduate of the Friends Council on Education’s Institute for Engaging Leadership in Friends Schools. Lauren is an alumna of Sidwell Friends School and served there after college as assistant director of auxiliary programs and a history teacher. Before coming to FCNL, Lauren was the upper school head at Carolina Friends School and, before that, the director of social action at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart.

Lauren is a co-clerk of the AFSC Community, Equity and Justice Board Committee, a member of the AFSC Board, and a Baltimore Yearly Meeting appointee to the AFSC Corporation.