Lauren Sandler

Lauren Sandler immersed herself in the life of an extraordinary young homeless mother to deeply understand how our myriad injustices were lived. She tells stories with a novelist’s depth about life inside our broken social services system and what it’s like to watch a brilliant criminal justice student be suffocated by the safety net intended to help her. Lauren will take you on a journey through the labyrinth her heroine navigated, offering context, history, and solutions at every turn. Her powerful voice will shine a light on our myriad human rights crises, lived right here in America, and help you see opportunities for formidable change as a nation and as individuals alike. Her wisdom, perspective, and capacity to inspire are more crucial and relevant than ever as we face a future in which millions of people find themselves suddenly facing what she witnessed in her reporting. It doesn’t have to be this way, and she’ll help you see how to get there – how we can build a world we can all be proud to live in.