Lauren Chang

Alumni Update:

Lauren is beginning her second year of law school at Columbia Law School. Last summer, she interned at the Legal Resource Centre in Cape Town for her legal internship. In the upcoming school year, she hopes to take Africa-related coursework and will be participating in the Columbia Human Rights Clinic.

Fellow Bio:

Lauren grew up in Sacramento, California.  Following her high school graduation, she spent 10 months in Zhongli, Taiwan as a Rotary Youth Exchange student.  In 2017, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Biology and a certificate in Writing.  During her undergraduate career, Lauren focused primarily on ecological research, working for two year in the Singer Laboratory at Wesleyan, participating in a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, and interning at the California Academy of Sciences.  She studied abroad in South Africa, where she conducted fieldwork in Kruger National Park and gained a better understanding of conservation policies in practice.  This experience opened Lauren’s interest in the wider implications of conservation policies and inspired her most recent internship at the district office of U.S. Congresswoman Doris Matsui.  Lauren is also passionate about gender equality, and has interned at Women’s Empowerment, a Sacramento non-profit that aids homeless and near-homeless women obtain employment.  Lauren is excited to be promoting women in science as part of the AWARD team, and can’t wait to explore Nairobi and beyond.