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Lauren Koski began her passion for stealing moments at her brother’s wrestling matches. For an 11-year-old, the mind-blowing fact that she could freeze time and keep it, was overwhelming. It wasn't long before Lauren hijacked her mother’s DSLR and took it for adventures on a daily basis. 

 

Among juggling her loves of coffee & tea, health-food trends, cats, her sassy one-eyed horse and injecting Japanese phrases into her everyday language, the art and passion of telling stories remains Lauren’s greatest strength and desire.

 

Visual storytelling became a “thing” in Lauren’s life after traveling to Kosovo and Japan during her summers, beginning to shatter any ethnocentrism she was still harboring. Now she feels a constant need to give a voice to the stories that have yet to be told. This global mindset is something she knows will only continue to flourish and manifest itself in future intercultural engagements.

 

It kind of just happened that Lauren went into journalism at California Baptist University. Even through seasons of cheating on it with other majors, storytelling faithfully pursued her.

 

Today as she appraoches her final year in CBU's Journalism department, Lauren is focused on using storytelling as means to share her faith in Jesus Christ with her readers and viewers, as well as create controversial and thoughtful ideas that allow followers of Jesus to seek more in their faith.

 

Stories are what drive Lauren to experience more, love more, serve more and capture moments more. Years from now, when Lauren is telling these stories to her grandchildren, it is her greatest prayer that she will tell them how stories were used to change the influence of the media for the better.

 

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