Over eighteen years in selective college admission, Lauren conducted recruitment travel across the United States and Canada, established Mount Holyoke's first regional admission office in the San Francisco Bay Area, and pursued varied professional development opportunities from The Harvard Summer Institute to The White Privilege Conference. She became a trained Intergroup Dialogue facilitator, chaired the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Communications Committee, and bounced between coasts alternately as a regional and on-campus member of the admission staff.

In 2016 Lauren transitioned to her current position as the Dean of College and Gap Year Advising at the Jewish Community High School of the Bay. Beyond providing personalized, one-on-one college counseling to the JCHS community, she also serves as a member of the Senior Leadership Team and the Anti-Bias and Inclusion Steering Committee. Her work extends beyond the walls of the school as a current member of the Fiske Guide to Colleges Counselor Advisory Group, the 2018-2020 University of California, Berkeley Counselor Advisory Group, and the NACAC 2019-2020 CEO Search Committee. 

Lauren is also a distinguished member of the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC). She joined the Executive Board in 2015 as an Assembly Delegate, representing Western in the NACAC National Assembly while also creating WACAC's first organizational profile and co-chairing the Leadership Development Institute for college admission middle managers. She entered the presidential cycle in the spring of 2018, and during that three-year commitment she co-chaired a Super Conference with record-breaking attendance, built a formal organizational rapid response plan for regional and national crises, oversaw the creation of Western's first strategic plan, and managed a complete revision and restatement of the WACAC bylaws.

Lauren's volunteer commitments have earned her the Mount Holyoke Loyalty Award and the WACAC Steve Hankins New Counselor Award. She is also delighted to periodically share her college counseling expertise as a guest on ABC7 News Bay Area. When she is not engaged in college admission work, you can find her reading, hiking, and advocating for racial justice.