Lauren Pauer is Director of Marketing and Communications at Spirit of America, where she leads integrated marketing and communications efforts to grow the organization’s brand, cultivate and engage donors, and drive revenue. She is responsible for donor communications and engagement, programmatic marketing, digital content strategy, audience growth, and brand management.

Lauren has over 15 years of marketing and communications experience at nonprofit and education organizations. Before joining Spirit of America in 2020, she served as Senior Director of Content Strategy for Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she led multi-platform content creation and managed the school’s brand across seven degree programs and 10 centers, initiatives, and institutes. She also edited the school’s biannual alumni magazine, with a readership of 25,000. She previously worked in communications for Sidwell Friends School and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.

Lauren holds a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from Syracuse University.