Hi, I'm Lauren.

While my background is in journalism, my interests have long been in conservation and birds. I first moved to Dzantik'i Héeni/Juneau in 2021. I now live in Dghevey Kag'/Anchorage as the Communications Manager for Audubon Alaska—the Alaska program of National Audubon Society. There, I oversee On The Wire, a solutions-based, Alaska-focused bird and conservation newsfeed.

As an editor and journalist from Phoenix, I've covered culture, food, music, refugee resettlement, food waste, and sustainability for Phoenix New Times and other Arizona publications. I'm a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (where I am now an instructor). 

I am a former member of Voice Media Guild and SEACC United. I am currently a proud member of the Bird Union at Audubon.

I sit on the board of 49 Writers and Alaska Writers Guild. I am also a fellow in the BookEnds’ 2025-2026 Fellowship at Stony Brook University and the 2025 Virtual Summer Retreat Short Fiction Cohort with Abode Press.

Joys include cycling, birding, reselling, horror, writing speculative fiction and horror stories, doing Alaska stuff with my partner Nate, and singing to my cat Fred Meyer and dog Leroy.