Lauren is a second-year MBA at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, focusing on Design and Innovation. She heads the WSOM Design Club and a the WSOM Design For America project team where she is working to on a social innovation in the eldercare space using human centered design methods. She also works with first-year Design students and on a number of Design and Innovation initiatives as the Design and Innovation Graduate Assistant. Lauren has had a passion for social entrepreneurship and innovation since college, where she engaged in servant leadership programming and conducted a community based research project. Fun fact: she got to meet Jessica Jackley, the founder of Kiva (a peer-to-peer micro-lending platform) back in 2012 at a conference on Social Entrepreneurship. We won't mention that being in the presence of this rockstar social entrepreneur made Lauren cry in public. It is a life goal of hers to one day meet the original social innovator, Muhammad Yunus. Assistance in this endeavor would be greatly appreciated. Between college and pursuing her MBA, Lauren became the part of the giant social innovation engine of Teach For America. She was a Spanish teacher in inner-city Chicago for her two years in the Corps, and then as an alum she continued teaching for two additional years. She now gets to put her teaching experience to use in her position as the VP of Academic Affairs of Weatherhead's Graduate Business Student Association. All of these experiences with social innovation led Lauren to human-centered design, which is what she works in today as a part of Goodyear's Customer Centered Innovation team. She also works with a national social innovation group called Social Venture Partners, offering capacity building consulting for Cleveland's most impactful non-profits. For fun, she likes to run, ski, and paint. She just completed her third marathon in November 2017! She hopes to re
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