Is Everyone Really Welcome? Building Inclusive Community in an Age of Extremes

The Muslim Leadership Lab at Dwight Hall in conjunction with Muslim Life at the Chaplain’s Office are super pleased to welcome Lauren Schreiber for our first community conversation of the year! 

Join us at Dwight Hall at 6:00 pm on Friday September 9^th for coffee, donuts and conversation. We welcome groundbreaking community builder, artist and educator Lauren Schreiber. Here are some more details on Lauren: 

Lauren Schreiber is an artist, facilitator, and event curator with a background in youth development, arts education, organizing, and community building.  She lives for strategic planning & culture creation in community spaces.  Her most important (and favorite!) job is being a mom.  You can often find her plotting to take over the DMV, building systems, writing music and breastfeeding in public.

She is the co-founder and executive director of Center DC, a community-based organization that serves the spiritual & social needs of people practicing and exploring Islam in the metro-accessible D.C. area.  Center DC serves over 1,500 folks annually and facilitates community through over 100 events a year.

Lauren is also the founder and host of #ArtBetweenUs, DC’s first quarterly all-women’s open mic for an all women’s audience.  She also co-founded and facilitates the DMV Exchange (an annual gathering of Muslim community builders in the DC-MD-VA metro accessible area).

She was selected as one of the “30 under 30” 2013 awardees for Prince George’s County, MD, and was tapped as a member of the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute (AMCLI) East 1 cohort in 2014.  She is also a graduate of the Ta’Leef Collective’s Mu’alif Mentorship Program (Summer 2015 cohort), and part of the inaugural cohort of The Sanctuaries’ Collective Fellowship.