Faculty Sponsor: Jonathan Kurtis

Lauren began her Royce Sport and Society research by looking at how sport can be used to raise awareness and educate about infectious diseases. Throughout the course of her research, Lauren's project expanded to examine how sport can also be used as a means of youth empowerment--specifically for young women--in different regions of Kenya. During her summer spent in Kenya, Lauren worked with a sport and development practitioner based in Nairobi, looking at how different organizations, large and small, old and new, used sports in these different ways.