Colorado Born and Raised! Lauren had a hearing screening test at one of the first hospitals where she was born in 1995 and discovered that she was deaf. After discovering her deafness, her mother got an ASL book and started learning. Lauren had an early intervention service, however no Deaf Mentor. Her speech pathologist has a deaf child of her own and suggested Lauren’s parents continue to learn sign language along with speech. When she was two years old, her parents enrolled her into Total Communication preschool for three years. Then by Kindergarten to Senior year of High School, She was raised in mainstream schools. She went on an 18 months mission in California, San Fernanado mission, where she did most of her service around deaf people. She came home and lived with her grandparents for a year then moved to Utah in 2017. She attended Utah Valley University for a year and half, then started working at USDB as a Teacher Aide in 2020. Then in late December 2022, Lauren started working as Deaf Mentor. Lauren loves outdoors, however she loves indoors a little bit more. She loves to read, watch movies and TV shows, and go out for a walk.