Lauren Hick is a 2025-2026 Teach Plus Colorado Charter Policy Fellow, and criminology and 10th grade social studies teacher at Rocky Mountain Prep SMART in Denver. She has served on the school accountability committee at the Early College of Arvada and at Denver School of Science and Technology. Lauren started her career in special education as a 2006 Teach for America corps member. She earned her BS in sociology and ethnic studies from Colorado State University, MS in special education from PACE University, and MPA in nonprofit management and international policy from New York University.
