Lauren Gaia (she/they) currently serves as Chief of Staff and Strategic Diversity Initiatives and Posse Co-Liaison in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Prior to joining the Mount Holyoke community, Gaia served as the Senior Specialist for Executive Communications to the CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, the Communications Manager and Executive Associate for the CEO of CARE USA, the Director of Scheduling for Michelle Nunn for U.S. Senate and an Aide to Stacey Abrams, then House Minority Leader and State Representative.
Having spent more than a decade in Atlanta, Georgia, Gaia is deeply grateful for the opportunity to stay connected to the civil rights and social justice work anchored by the Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights and the Andrew J. Young Foundation.
As a white woman, Gaia works to unlearn whiteness and address the problematic nature of her own white womanhood.
Gaia holds a B.A. from Agnes Scott College, an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Theological Studies (Modern Religious Thought and Experience) from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Gaia’s masters thesis research grappled with whiteness, work and class in a homogenous, white agricultural community in Western Washington.
Education
- MTS Candler School of Theology at Emory University
- MBA Georgia Institute of Technology
- BA from Agnes Scott College