Lauren S.B.

Lauren is an advanced PhD Candidate and Provost’s Diversity Fellow at Columbia University in the Theatre and Performance English and Comparative Literature Department. Lauren received a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is a former scholarship recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Senegal (2020), awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Here, she taught English as a second language while continuing research on the 1960s' "Black Is Beautiful Movement" and the emergence of Pan-Africanism for her podcast, "My Colorful Nana.”
As a passionate storyteller, she is primarily interested in movement building and taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring critical global issues. She is trained in graduate-level courses highlighting the politics of visual arts, innovative education practices, and language teaching, taught by other scholars as part of an international roster of researchers from across Columbia University and New York City.