Senior Training and Technical Assistance Associate
Education Development Center (EDC)
Lauren Gilman, a highly skilled technical assistance specialist, has extensive knowledge of mental health promotion, school-based initiatives, substance misuse prevention, and youth violence prevention. Drawing on her health communications and capacity-building expertise, she helps community organizations and school districts bridge research and practice, implement and sustain evidence-based programs, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and use data-driven planning to achieve systems change.
Lauren’s approach to advancing substance misuse prevention and social emotional learning emphasizes interconnected risk and protective factors and fosters collaboration. Her background as an interpreter for Spanish-speaking immigrants and as a school counselor for high-risk Latino youth demonstrates Lauren’s bilingual and multicultural skills.
Lauren holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University.