Like many of our staff, Lauren has worn many gorros for Cucuyo. She has seamlessly glided between researcher, workshop instructor, development associate, youth coordinator and first counsel with ease and competency. The latter role as fantastic advice giver has been an enormous gift to me personallly as a director and this is my public thank you to her. Thank you Lauren Stephenson.
Lauren's big heart gets its groove on with MarializThis amazing woman has moved to Argentina and you can follow her through her days in Buenos Aires—and I encourage you to do so—in her blog Alta en Argentina. Below is an excerpt from her first photo-rich entry about her 2011 Cucuyo experience.
I recently spent two weeks in Bonao, Dominican Republic working with Cucuyo, an intercultural arts program founded by my lovely friend Laura Vaughn. Last year I taught a creative writing workshop (in Spanish!), and this year I returned as a Youth Coordinator (chaperone) for our 3 American participants. This year was particularly exciting because it was the first time we had students from the U.S., we had an AMAZING group of teachers and support staff, and it was just wonderful to see my Dominican family and friends again...