Scripting
Lauren started scripting cyber-security stories for The Kim Komando Show in 2018. From 2020 to 2022, she wrote and developed shows including Medical Murders, Cults, & Con-Artists for Parcast, Spotify.
Her work is featured on Mr. Ballen’s Medical Mysteries (Wondery), Missing Pages (The Podglomerate), and in various TV mini series for PocketFM.
Media Production
Lauren has produced social-first content for countless brands, apps, and news platforms, experimenting with various formats, holding story at the heart.
Lauren was an early adopter of TikTok.
Since downloading the app in 2019, she’s amassed over 57K followers and collaborated with health-forward brands like Fab, Fit, Fun, & Silvi.
In 2023, Lauren produced multi-platform content and copy for Revel.xyz, a Web-3 mobile app created by Adi Sideman, founder of YouNow.
A passionate consumer of all things new media, Lauren envisions an open-source future where sustainability and community reign above all.
Product Explainers
Lauren can intuit product quickly and help translate function for consumers.
She grew the Revel community by communicating pain-points to developers and creating campaigns with new messaging, to make app features more accessible.
Mellow
Mellow is a biodegradable phone case composed of plant-based materials, made to support phones while reducing waste.
MedTruth
MedTruth is a news hub devoted to updating the consumer on medications, consumer products, and medical devices.
This video covers advocates of the Breast Implant Safety Alliance, who met at a Plastic Surgery conference to share how implants harmed them.
MedWatch is a self-reporting database intended to allow patients to report on their experiences with medications and medical devices. But flaws in the platform and delays to reporting leave patients at risk.
Lauren journeyed to West Hollywood, Laguna Beach, San Francisco, and St. Louis over the course of 3 weeks to speak with doctors, lawyers, and one adversely-affected patient.
In May 2019, women from across the nation gathered in the Washington D.C. to advocate for the Medical Device Safety Act (H.R. 2669).
Lauren documented their journey navigating the Capitol building for two days, camera-in-hand, as they sought reform.
Reporting
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The story of a 17-year-old girl who was failed by U.S. healthcare, in her struggle with Depression.
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A recap of the first-ever chronic illness conference, Chronicon, hosted by Nitika Chopra in October 2019.
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A well-known documentary in the wellness space, Heal explores alternative practices for healing the body. Its recommendations prove myopic.
Awards & Achievements
Lauren was selected for and is currently a fellow of the HRTS Foundation’s 2024 Fellowship Program.
She is also enrolled in the Professional TV Writing Program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television.
WGAE Negotiations
In September 2020, Lauren was elected to Parcast’s Bargaining Committee.
For two years, she worked tirelessly to identify key concerns, strategize collective actions, and secure a contract for the unit, alongside fellow colleagues and two badass WGAE reps.
Screenwriter of Lonely in the Dusk, an Official Selection for the Newport Beach Film Festival. Written in collaboration with Jacky Song.
Set in the 1950s, a time when queerness was condemned, pathologized, and criminalized in many parts of the world, this film tells the story of a woman with deafness who falls in love with a woman.
Official Selection
Co-Director of His Party, created with Dir. Brynn Bodair, selected for the Los Angeles Experimental Dance & Music Film Festival.
This experimental short utilizes 1950s costuming and body language motifs to raise questions about gender constructs that echo on today.
