Senior Account Executive, k-global edge
Lauren has worked in journalism and digital media since 2005. Running the gamut from restaurant reviews and band profiles to website copy for luxury hotels worldwide, her work has appeared in such publications as DC Magazine, Washingtonian magazine, Performer magazine and Rolling Stone magazine. As the first D.C. editor of Citysearch – the largest local content and advertising network in the country – Lauren was responsible for creating the D.C. Citysearch presence from the ground-up. This included managing all editorial content, maintaining Twitter, Facebook and all social media efforts and planning and executing monthly events that promoted local businesses and vendors with the site’s active online users. As a founding editor at Opalmine Publishing and its local site, Citystream.com, Lauren worked with one of the country’s largest content-based networks of Facebook pages to provide targeted content to thousands of readers and to cultivate active online communities.
Additionally, she has worked in the editorial development department of National Geographic Television. Lauren has a B.A. in mass communications from UC Berkeley and an M.A. in creative nonfiction writing from The Johns Hopkins University. A native of California by way of Hawaii, she has lived in D.C. since 2006 and has been an enthusiastic explorer of its culinary and confectionary offerings ever since.
