About Lauren Veasey, M.Ed.
Lauren is a granddaughter, aunt and sister raised in California, with deep Southern Roots. She is committed to honoring culture as sacred, love & family, social & economic justice, and shifting current narratives. She is a bridge-builder, bringing together people from different worlds. She is a curator of spaces for individual and collective healing. Her work operates from a heart-centered approach, focusing on the inner-work needed to sustain the outer-work for ourselves, families, communities and the world.
Lauren has over 15 years of experience in leadership development, community building, advocacy, philanthropy & nonprofits, research & policy. She is curious about authentic ways of being together that deepen our humanity, alternative heart-centered economies, and the restoration of wholeness to lineages of people who have experienced historical traumas.
Her work focuses on healing and cultural arts work, using culture as a tool to raise consciousness. She believes in the possibility of growth & expansion for each person. She uses sacred feminine-based, collective practices such as circle process to bring unity to groups, to find shared commonalities. Her goal with group work is to find the liminal or third space where unlimited possibilities exist for understanding, creativity & freedom. Her work has reached hundreds in the San Francisco Bay Area, the American South, Mid-West, East Coast, and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
At the East Bay Meditation Center, the nation’s most diverse, gift economy-based meditation center, she has served as Coordinating Committee Member of the People of Color Meditation Group. Lauren has served as Board Chair of Justice Matters Press, the nation’s only Social and Racial Justice press run by People of Color for People of Color. She is on the Advisory Board for East Point Peace Academy, where incarcerated populations, youth, activists and community leaders are trained in practices of mindfulness, nonviolence and conflict reconciliation. Lauren previously worked with the Young People’s Project to re-launch the Quality Education as a Constitutional Right initiative, where she worked closely with Civil Rights icon Bob Moses. She also served as Program Officer for the Southern Education Foundation, the nation’s oldest independent education nonprofit, advancing equity and excellence in education in the South.
She was an Education Policy Fellow with Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education; a Southeastern Council of Foundations Hull Fellow, and an Association of Black Foundation Executives Connecting Leaders Fellow. She has held memberships of Grantmakers for Education and Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy.
Lauren received her Master of Arts in Education Policy from the University of Michigan and received dual Bachelor of Arts degrees from Stanford University in Political Science and African and African-American Studies.
Lauren Veasey, M.Ed.
Founder & Managing Partner