Lauren started her employment with AR to assist the admin team and has grown her position to include managing firm-wide billing, training all staff in efficient use of Ajera, and supporting project administration, amongst other accounting and administrative duties. Her previous experience includes banking, varied customer service roles, and team supervision, as well as running her own doula business.
As a doula, Lauren provided childbirth education, lactation support, specialized infant care, labor coaching (attending over 100 births), new parent support groups, and much more. In 2016 she formed a successful doula collective in California which still provides subsidized care and resources to the community and helps new families establish long-lasting connections with each other and alternative providers.
Lauren is passionate about supporting her community and believes we function at our highest when in relationship with each other. She has always enjoyed caring for the needs of her clients and colleagues and is a dynamic nurturer. She loves working in a group towards a better future!
Lauren is originally from England, was raised in Texas, spent six years in California with her husband, Patrick, and their children, and now lives and works remotely in North Carolina. She enjoys reading, cooking, visiting family in England, thrift shopping, and playing board games with her mum and kids.
What’s your creative tool of choice?
Journaling and doodling to help open my mind
If you could work on a project anywhere in the world where would it be?
Fiji
If you had a superpower to make a bigger impact on communities/ cities/ or environments what superpower would you have?
Being able to cut through red tape like butter! I wish it was easier to access school curriculums because I think it is really important to teach children at an early age how to care for their community and skills like permaculture, rain water catchment, and growing your own food.