Lauren graduated Rochester Institute of Technology in 2009 with an MFA in Film and a Minor in Creative Writing. She represented her class as the commencement and convocation graduation speaker. From 2008-2010 Lauren and her father Rick ran an organization that worked with Avid, NYU and Kathryn Bigelow to provide financial awards to female filmmakers. In 2010 she interned for producers of The Hammer and a commercial production company called Über Content in Los Angeles. By 2013 Lauren had edited 20 shorts, two features, directed shorts, music videos, corporate videos and wrote a draft of the feature film Sweet Desert Palm. Lauren created X-Factor Films with Rick - a Hollywood 2.0 studio making movies by and about badass ladies. Lauren's studio, coupled with with the Sweet Desert Palm script, was a 2013 Dogfish Accelerator finalist in New York City. In 2014 X-Factor was accepted into a top Boston incubator Venture Development Center of UMass Boston. From the incubator Lauren launched ww