Lauren is the co-founder of Art & Soul School of Creative & Performing ARTS. Her background is in using the arts to teach community well-being. She has traveled internationally to Argentina, Jamaica and Mexico, providing social services through the use of the arts. Her bachelor’s degree and master’s work focused on using the arts in the social service sector. Since 2003, Art & Soul School has provided Educational ARTs Programs to over 10,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been an ARTS educator and advocate for the arts her entire life. Lauren loves to incorporate mosaics, painting and oil pastels into her personal art work. She calls her mixed-media nature & acrylic paintings, “Spiritual Abstracts.”