Lauren is so happy to be back at Gather after a brief hiatus, and looking forward to doing more politics but especially more science reporting soon; I miss it!
America's sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence once again proved her down-to-earth realness by explaining in earnest that she forgot to eat before the 85th Academy Awards, and begging her assistant to get her . . . more
I am a writer with eclectic taste who has loved writing since I was a small child. I have extensive experience with writing non-fiction, including marketing copy for blogs, marketing copy crafted into tweets, heavily researched editorials and media criticism for my own blog, how-to columns, product reviews, recipes and more. I write freelance expository articles and editorials for the web, most notably for Gather.com and Suite101.com.
I currently run public relations and social media for EarlEBird.com, an annuity blog dedicated to providing simplified, third-party information on annuities and retirement planning to our nation's seniors.
I worked for a year as the primary public relations representative for a local entertainment company in upstate New York, which involved using multiple social media platforms to promote the brand and its artists; this included ghostwriting tweets. I recently re-connected with this company to ghostwrite and copy-edit a series of memoirs, in addition to other projects.
I am a May 2008 college graduate and am already published across the web, and I am looking forward to expanding my writing career, particularly on the Internet. I love news and media and I make sure to pay attention and read all different styles of writing with an open mind. I run a community center for the children of Baby Boomers, known as Generation XYZ, which combines blogs, discount shopping, news aggregation and non-profits. Through the Twitter account associated with this company, I have created social media buzz and helped raise funds for pre-eminent non-profit organizations such as Doctors without Borders (Médicins sans Frontières), Baby Buggy, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Doctors without Borders named me a social media ambassador for their “Starved for Attention” campaign in the summer of 2010.
My Bachelor’s degree is a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in Rhetoric (and a minor in Theatre) from Binghamton University. You can follow me on Twitter @TheGrottoTweets.
