Lauren t’Kint de Roodenbeke

Alumni Update:

Last year Lauren started a job as a Grants Coordinator for Elevate, a grant writing and non-profit strategy firm in Washington DC. She is excited to continue to use the experience she gained working with Integrate Health to make her an effective member of her team!

Fellow Bio:

Lauren graduated from George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs with a BA in International Affairs, concentrating in Global Public Health and International Development and used her French to spend a semester at Sciences Po in Paris. Since her freshman year, she has worked for the Grassroot Project, a non-profit that trains student- athletes to teach middle school students sexual education, specifically addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in DC. She is a founding member of No Lost Generation, a student initiative partnered with the State Department aimed at providing quality education for refugee youth. She has interned in the West Africa office of Human Rights Watch, focusing on media monitoring for Senegal and Gambia. She spent 6 months as an intern in the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Intergovernmental Affairs at Peace Corps supporting the Acting Director. Lauren utilized a summer interning with WomanCare Global, where she worked on a USAID project to support the introduction of new woman-initiated technologies to meet the reproductive health needs of women and girls. She also interned for Athletes for Hope where she connected Olympic and professional athletes to charitable organizations, including Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools initiative. As a member of the D1 Cross Country/Track team at GW, Lauren was selected by coaches for the Athletic Leadership Academy and was nominated for an Excellence in Student Life Award for contributing to a culture of philanthropy and voluntarism on campus. She is looking forward to continuing her commitment to public health at Integrate Health as their Capacity Building Fellow in Kara, Togo!