LAUREN HAGANI
Lauren Hagani is the Director of Research and Social Impact at the Confined Arts (TCA). Over the past four years, Lauren has worked for numerous social justice organizations creating projects, overseeing research initiatives and developing programs to promote criminal justice reform, mental health services and community building.
In May 2020, Lauren graduated cum laude from Columbia University in the City of New York with a BA in Sociology, and was awarded Departmental Honors and the Squires Prize for her senior thesis on how incarcerated individuals in New York State prisons adapt to and navigate relationships behind bars. Lauren’s senior thesis built off of a project Lauren helped design and conduct at the Center for Justice, called the Social Dynamics of Prison interview study. For this study, Lauren helped design study methods, conduct interviews and analyze study data. At TCA, Lauren also helps draft and edit publications, perform qualitative and statistical data analysis, present ongoing research, apply for grants, plan conferences and develop community engagement strategies.
Prior to her time at TCA, Lauren worked at The Connection Institute in New Haven, Connecticut, helping to develop a program that reconnects incarcerated fathers with their children. Lauren has also worked at Getting Out Staying Out, a non-profit based in East Harlem that provides vocational, educational and emotional support for young men who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system. In her time as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Lauren served as a Residential Advisor for incoming freshmen and as Director of Nightline Peer Listening, a student-run, anonymous peer listening hotline open every night of the academic year to serve members of the Barnard/Columbia community. In May 2020, Lauren was granted the King’s Crown Award in Health and Wellness by Columbia College for her work destigmatizing mental illnesses and developing community spaces.
Lauren also currently works on the research team at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that collects data to help law enforcement agencies identify ways to improve their relationship with the communities they serve. In her professional career, Lauren intends to continue conducting research to humanize and improve the conditions of people impacted by systems of discrimination and inequality.
Lauren Hagani is the Director of Research and Social Impact at the Confined Arts (TCA). Over the past four years, Lauren has worked for numerous social justice organizations creating projects, overseeing research initiatives and developing programs to promote criminal justice reform, mental health services and community building.
In May 2020, Lauren graduated cum laude from Columbia University in the City of New York with a BA in Sociology, and was awarded Departmental Honors and the Squires Prize for her senior thesis on how incarcerated individuals in New York State prisons adapt to and navigate relationships behind bars. Lauren’s senior thesis built off of a project Lauren helped design and conduct at the Center for Justice, called the Social Dynamics of Prison interview study. For this study, Lauren helped design study methods, conduct interviews and analyze study data. At TCA, Lauren also helps draft and edit publications, perform qualitative and statistical data analysis, present ongoing research, apply for grants, plan conferences and develop community engagement strategies.
Prior to her time at TCA, Lauren worked at The Connection Institute in New Haven, Connecticut, helping to develop a program that reconnects incarcerated fathers with their children. Lauren has also worked at Getting Out Staying Out, a non-profit based in East Harlem that provides vocational, educational and emotional support for young men who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system. In her time as an undergraduate at Columbia University, Lauren served as a Residential Advisor for incoming freshmen and as Director of Nightline Peer Listening, a student-run, anonymous peer listening hotline open every night of the academic year to serve members of the Barnard/Columbia community. In May 2020, Lauren was granted the King’s Crown Award in Health and Wellness by Columbia College for her work destigmatizing mental illnesses and developing community spaces.
Lauren also currently works on the research team at the Center for Policing Equity, an organization that collects data to help law enforcement agencies identify ways to improve their relationship with the communities they serve. In her professional career, Lauren intends to continue conducting research to humanize and improve the conditions of people impacted by systems of discrimination and inequality.
