About

Lauren received her PhD in the Learning Sciences from the Department of Teaching and Learning in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, advised by Rogers Hall and Corey Brady. Her work focuses on how choreographic ways of knowing can be generative sites for STEM learning, design, and analysis.

She is now a postdoctoral scholar at NYU working on the PiLa-CS project to support teachers to incorporate CS with a translanguaging lens into their classrooms. In this position she is a Lucas Education Foundation postdoctoral fellow, focusing on the study and design of equity centered learning environments.

In addition to her postdoctoral work, Lauren is a co-PI on the three-year NSF project Applying a complex systems perspective to investigate the relationship between choreography and agent-based modeling as tools for scientific sense-making (Award #2115773).

Lauren began dancing at a young age as she also became enamored with counting, organizing, and pattern making. Her love of the art form as well as mathematics brought her to New York where received her a BFA in dance and a BS in mathematics from The Ailey School and Fordham University. She then went on to work at the National Museum of Mathematics, where she worked as an educator and developed a movement based mathematics curriculum. She then went on to earn her Masters in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. Her dissertation research at Vanderbilt explored bridging dance, mathematics, and computation by developing tools and techniques to allow children, as well as adults, to use their bodies as tools for ensemble-based mathematical choreographic thinking and learning.

Email address: lev226@nyu.edu