Lauren turner hines

Lauren Turner Hines (she/her/hers) is a Consultant at ALJP Consulting. Lauren is the founding Producing Artistic Director of No Dream Deferred NOLA, a community-anchored theatre production company that is dedicated to the development of new works originating in the south. Additionally, Lauren leads as founder and Artistic Director of the Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice. Lauren is driven by her interest in equitable, place-based, culturally relevant theatre especially as it pertains to the global south. Her work lives where storytelling, community building, and politics intersect. Lauren speaks and facilitates with organizations and institutions across the US. She is an artEquity facilitator and founding content creator for the BIPOC Surviving PWI series and the BIPOC Leadership Circle Series. Lauren is the founder of Equity and Justice for Institutional Change (EJIC), an organizational development consulting firm. Additionally, Lauren provides executive strategic and wellness coaching for global majority leaders working within predominantly/historically white institutions. She is a Round 4 recipient in the Leadership U: One-on-One grant program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, designed to further develop prominent emerging leaders and change agents in the American Theatre. Lauren has also served as a Mellon Fellow through Tulane University’s Community Engaged Graduate Program, mentoring Tulane University graduate students who wish to implement community-engaged practices into their work. Lauren received her Master of Fine Arts in Performance from The University of Southern Mississippi and her B.A. from North Carolina Central University. Lauren lives joyfully in New Orleans with her husband and their 3 children.