Lauren Burke (she/her)

Capacity Coach

Lauren Burke is the Capacity Coach at Movement for Family Power, where she supports system-impacted movement leaders to catalyze their visions for change through technical assistance, coaching, and trainings.

Lauren also supports organization founders with lived experience of systems of criminalization through her consulting agency, The Possible LAB, and runs her first for-profit venture, Notehouse, a CRM software for human service workers. 

Throughout her career, Lauren has built legal departments at Domestic Violence organizations, developed and taught clinics for law schools, and co-founded and grew the nonprofit Atlas: DIY, a cooperative center for immigrant youth and their allies in Brooklyn, NY. In the wake of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, Lauren moved into a van to provide free immigration legal services and Know Your Rights training to immigrant communities throughout rural America via a project called Immigration Nation. In 2020, Lauren co-founded Camp Equity, connecting over 250+ young people to learn about grassroots movements from proximate leaders. During this time, Lauren taught courses on aspirational allyship for white-identifying families and conceptualized the publication of “My Social Justice Dictionary: 150+ Words for Young Changemakers.” 

Lauren has worked in residence with founders at the JM Kaplan Foundation, Claremont McKenna College, Smith College, NYU School of Law, Valley Venture Mentors, and Echoing Green, where she was a global fellow. She now lives in the woods of Western MA with her partner and two kids.