Notehouse Collaborative by Lauren Burke

Lauren describes herself as a “creator, igniter, and fighter” and has been dreaming up solutions to problems since she was five. When a childhood crush couldn’t attend Saturday playdates, she signed up for Mandarin classes so she could go with him. When the elementary school where she later volunteered as a translator for newly immigrated students did away with Transitional Bilingual Education, she went to law school to learn how to advocate for children’s rights. When DHS wrongfully targeted a client, she filed a federal injunction, winning the case before even being admitted to practice law. Lauren became a law professor at age 27 and has co-founded three social initiatives (Atlas DIY, Immigration Nation, and Camp Equity), creating dozens of jobs, raising millions of dollars, and impacting countless lives across the U.S. She has worked in residence at half a dozen institutions, providing mentorship and capacity building services to social impact founders, and most recently acted as Entrepreneur in residence at Smith College. She is the co-author of "My Social Justice Dictionary: 150+ Words for Young Changemakers, and her work has been featured in the NYTimes, On All Things Considered, and in four documentary pieces. Today, alongside many smaller initiatives, Lauren is focused on building Notehouse, the CRM for human helpers, through which she aims to not only support frontline workers but explore different ways in which for-profit and nonprofit businesses can work together to build a more equitable world. She has received recognition from Forbes 30 Under 30, the Skadden and Echoing Green Fellowships, New Leaders’ Council, Connecticut College, and NYU School of Law. Lauren lives in the woods of Western Massachusetts with her partner, two kids, a dog, and a cat, and they spend a lot of time dancing in the kitchen. She dreams of a world where everyone has equitable access to being both the recipients and the beneficiaries of the greater good.