Lauren Cloward serves as a senior policy advisor at WGA, where she tackles the big issues across Western Governors’ health care, agriculture, and tribal policy. She is also spearheading WGA’s 2027 Chair initiative, Health Beyond Healthcare, under the leadership of Hawaiʻi Governor Josh Green. Since joining WGA in early 2020, just in time for a global pandemic, Lauren has helped advance Governors’ socioeconomic priorities to strengthen local, state, and regional economies and enhance the quality of life in western communities.
Hailing from Seattle, Lauren graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Santa Clara University. Her career has taken her from Denver to West Africa and back. Before her time at WGA, she was a program coordinator with Share Our Strength, facilitating food skills education for low-income communities in the Denver metro area, and a Fulbright research fellow, studying food and water systems in Burkina Faso. In her free time, you can find Lauren traveling, lending her experience to Denver’s Sustainable Food Policy Council, and enjoying the many activities that Colorado has to offer.
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