Lauren is adept at leveraging multiple areas of NORC’s broad expertise to deliver high-quality results to clients and successfully manages all aspects of research projects. She effectively plans and manages data collection projects from start to finish, understands system impacts on efficient data collection, and has robust problem-solving skills when challenges arise to meet goals on schedule and within budget. Maintaining longitudinal panels with high response rates through innovative contacting, locating, and payment strategies, has been a particular focus of her work over her time in survey research.

Lauren has played an integral role in coordinating and executing the data collection efforts for studies of all levels of size and complexity including the several rounds of both active cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Component 2 EEO-1 for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Entrepreneurship in the Population (EPOP) survey with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Entrepreneurship in the Population: Indiana (EPOP-IN) with the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and several projects with the Lab for Economic Opportunities at Notre Dame.

Starting her career as a phone interviewer and having many different roles and positions throughout her early experiences in survey research, Lauren has not only overseen most data collection tasks but has been in the shoes of those who complete the day-to-day tasks. This prior experience gives Lauren a unique perspective on maximizing efficiencies, managing and training staff, and providing high data quality outcomes through the life cycle of data collection efforts.