Lauren Akin is a musician, storyteller, artist, and educator. Through collaborative, embodied, imaginative practices, she works with youth to unravel the cognitive patterns of empire and co-create experiences that reveal the sanctity of the living world.  She completed her M.S in Leadership for Sustainability at the University of Vermont. She began her doctoral research in Transdisciplinary Leadership, Creativity and Sustainability at the University of Vermont in the Fall of 2020. Lauren brings her commitment to love and liberatory imagination to her operations and student support work within the MLS program.