Lauren blends a journalist’s curiosity, an artist's creativity, a gamer's strategy, and a would-be lawyer’s logic into a rare skillset: she can read a system, read a room, and tell the story that moves both.

Equal parts people-watcher, question-asker, and systems thinker, it tracks that Lauren grew up addicted to puzzle games (Myst, anyone?), and the rush of solving the Sunday Jumble. An avid post-apocalyptic, thriller, true-crime, and sci-fi fan (in all forms!), her love of reading, art, and RPGs stems from a deep curiosity about human nature — one that left her fairly convinced she was destined for law school.

But, lawyers first have to get a degree in something, and after her mother refused to let her change her major a third time, Lauren graduated from Brock University with a B.A. in Political Science... and a newfound enthusiasm for policy debates, student politics, and the ‘fact-based, hot-take’ — long before it became her day job.

As a newly minted grad, she worked as a video journalist in Northern Ontario for a minute before realising she was, in fact, not meant to be a journalist. There were simply too many causes to chase, and too many opinions to keep to herself.

So, she moved back to the Six, went to ‘the dark side’ (as former colleagues lovingly put it), and spent the next decade “growing up” in media relations, strategic communications, and issues management. Eventually, this revealed her true talent: translating complexity into public understanding by grounding policy narratives in people’s lived experience.

Curious, analytical, and fluent in human behaviour, Lauren has built her policy career around one core belief: that the best solutions start with the right story. ˗ˏˋ ✮ ˎˊ˗