A New Jersey native, Lauren graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 2010. In college, she studied several languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, German and Catalan, and spent semesters abroad in Berlin, Germany and Barcelona, Spain. Lauren returned to Spain after graduating to teach English in Granada. She then moved to New York City to work as a bilingual paralegal for a birth defects litigation firm, assisting with toxic tort cases in the Dominican Republic and Argentina. After leaving the legal industry, she moved into the entertainment world, where she worked in unscripted television and for a record label. She hopes to continue her studies in Latin American and Iberian history.
