Lauren is the Deputy Director of State Affairs at the BlueGreen Alliance and a passionate organiser, facilitator, trainer, network builder, and lifelong learner with nearly twenty years of experience leading teams to win comprehensive campaigns for workers’ rights and climate justice. At the BlueGreen Alliance, she manages internal collaboration between the State Affairs and other BGA departments. She particularly focuses on designing systems to support state staff and ensure strong integration between BGA’s state and federal work in policy advocacy and partnership building.
Lauren's passion for building worker power is rooted in the decade she organised with low-wage workers to win union recognition at UNITE HERE. Before her role at the BlueGreen Alliance, she also served as the Organizing Institute Assistant Director for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), focusing on training organisers to have the skills needed to win campaigns that build worker power and improve wages and working conditions, and as the Organizing Director at the Labor Network for Sustainability, focusing on just transition and building bridges between the labour movement and the climate justice movement.
As a consultant with the Cornell Climate Jobs Institute, Lauren co-authored 'Reclaiming Our Future: A Climate Jobs Agenda for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)'. As a Senior Fellow, Lauren has led collaboration to build a global peer-network of Atlantic Fellows working on climate action. This network organised the inaugural Atlantic Fellows Climate Convening in Bogota, Colombia in October 2024.
Lauren holds a BA in History, Ethnicity Race and Migration from Yale University and an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science.