Lauren Fitzgerald (Black Womxn from the South) is the Managing Director of the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) and the founder and Lead Executive Strategist for Strategize/619, a cultural strategy firm. She has worked with and performed at several non-profit organizations, art institutions and theatres such as the Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership (JUMP Nashville), the Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville TN), The Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, PA), The York Theatre Company (New York, NY), The Weathervane Theatre Company (Whitefield, NH), The Nashville Children’s Theatre, and with the Metro Nashville Arts Commission as the Neighborhood and Artists development coordinator managing the THRIVE funding program for community art projects.