Lauren Marks is a Southern California native, and for the last decade, she has worked in senior leadership roles in the Marketing and Communication sector inside non-profits in the LA area. As a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Lauren also has extensive professional experience in the literary and performing arts and is the author of “A Stitch of Time,” published by Simon and Schuster (2017). While living abroad in the UK, Lauren spent four years working inside a non-profit in London called “Connect,” serving those with language and physical disabilities, and her work included extensive artistic outreach and many forms of advocacy. Partially informed by her own lived experiences, Lauren is a knowledgeable and determined client advocate and plans to pursue her CA fiduciary license.