Bio
Before joining the ACLU of Michigan, Lauren most recently worked as an attorney advisor in the Civil Rights Division of the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There, she worked on novel and complex civil rights and religious freedom litigation, rulemaking, and enforcement. Lauren previously worked as an associate at Tycko & Zavareei LLP, where she litigated on behalf of consumers and previously incarcerated people. Cutting-edge lawsuits she filed there resulted in circuit court rulings protecting pregnant people and people with opioid use disorder from abuses during confinement. She was also an Equal Justice Works fellow at the ACLU National Prison Project, where she advocated on behalf of detained and incarcerated people, focusing on solitary confinement and mistreatment of pregnant and postpartum people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she litigated for the release of detained immigrants at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19. Lauren began her legal career as a clerk for the Honorable Stephen H. Glickman in the D.C. Court of Appeals.
In addition to her litigation work, Lauren has published widely, including in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, USA Today, Ms. Magazine, and more. Lauren is a graduate of Wesleyan University, Harvard Law School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.