Lauren Young is currently a research assistant looking at governance and private sector investment in Africa at the Center for Global Development. Lauren joins CGD from Monrovia where she worked for the past year in Liberia facilitating projects related to returnee reintegration as a Grants Manager for the American Refugee Committee. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Relations and honors in International Security Studies. Her other experience includes interning with an MCA threshold program in Tanzania, volunteering in a Congolese refugee camp in Zambia, and helping to launch a fundraising and awareness campaign called FACE AIDS.
