Highlights

• Professional writer

• Animal care and pet health content specialist

• Public relations and blogs

Experience

Lauren Lee, BA, MA, is a writer specializing in animal care and pet health content. Since she was a young child, her passions have been writing and anything to do with animals. She has been working in dog rescue since approximately 2008. She has volunteered at local shelters, helping with and training some of the more "difficult" dogs. Lauren taught a deaf pitbull to communicate by using hand signals. She later on fostered him and he became hers forever. 

After adopting a few rescue pitbulls into her family, she began to research their history to find out how these dogs became so outcast by society. Once Michael Vick's dog fighting ring really opened people's eyes to the cruel reality of dog fighting, Lauren began to write more about bully breeds and to advocate for these misunderstood dogs. She has written guest blogs, articles, and letters to mayors urging them against Breed Specific Legislation. She has worked to educate people about dogs because understanding starts with education. One of her stories about her rescue dogs was published in the book, “Loyalty Unleashed: Pit Bulls and the People Who Love Them,” written by her dear friend and fellow pitbull advocate, Sue Torres.

Lauren has written for numerous pet-related businesses, pet insurance companies, pet product companies, and a syndicated pet radio show based out of California. She is an avid animal activist. She is also a poet, and her work was published in the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Earth Day Anthology a few years ago. She is a member of the OWL poets, which earned its name because they meet at Oliver Wolcott Library. 

Lauren was a language arts teacher for 15 years and worked as a newspaper journalist and an editor for an international research and consulting firm. She also has an interest in human health research and writing, as she comes from a medical family.

She volunteers wherever she is needed to help animals. If that means making calls and reaching out to rescues through social media to find a home for a dog in desperate need, she will do it. If it means doing home checks for a family that has applied to adopt a dog, she will do it. Sometimes, it means finding transportation for a dog or even being the transportation for a portion of the trip. Lauren hopes one day to have the time to write a book about her life rescuing dogs.

Education

Lauren studied sociology, psychology, and creative writing as an undergraduate student at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. During her senior year, she wrote an independent thesis on the effectiveness of the only entirely student-run dormitory on campus.

She later attended the Connecticut Alternate Route to Certification program (ARC) to become certified to teach English/language arts in the public school. While teaching, she attended Western Connecticut State University to earn her master's degree in education curriculum.