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Lauren Alfrey

Lauren joins gnovis and CCT after working for three years as an online fundraising and advocacy consultant for progressive nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to her professional work, Lauren graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she majored in Communication and minored in Art History with a focus on women's representation in print advertising and high art. Currently, Lauren works as the Managing Editor of gnovis and as a research assistant on a project that examines the network structure of the Obama Administration. Eventually, Lauren hopes to get her Ph.D. in sociology to study how social information is spread through online networks and what effect this has on subcultures and communities of practice.

When she's not working, you can find Lauren on runs around DC, producing mountains of dirty dishes from her compulsive cooking and baking habits, or dreaming about the ways in which the Internet can change the world for the better.