Lauren Jurgensen
UNC College of Arts and Sciences
Student, 2021
Chapel Hill, NC
As a native of Rocky Point NC, Lauren had never traveled internationally until she was awarded the Global Gap Year Fellowship. She spent four months working on sustainable, organic farms in Puerto Rico and six months working at an LGBT NGO in Kyrgyzstan translating grant reports and leading workshops on social justice topics within the queer community. Lauren loves talking about the post soviet queer space and how much she enjoys the animal rescue and rehabilitation farm she currently works at in Carrboro, NC.