Writer and Producer Lauren Brown Jarvis attended Spelman College and is the visionary mind behind The Best Coast Tech Conference and Digital Doyennes: Wisdom from Women who Lead in Social Media and Digital Innovation. Lauren is also a startup founder and Chief Digital Officer for #prettysocial.

Lauren blogs about politics, millennials, women and tech at Digital Doyennes, writes regularly for Examiner.com and AllVoices.com, and is a regular contributor The Young Turks, Huffington Post, and Huff Post Live. Lauren has written and produced digital content for The Weather Channel, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Upscale Magazine, Clutch, Magazine and more. Combing her love for media, the written word and technology, Lauren’s passion now lies in helping executives, entrepreneurs, educators and non profits find paths to meaningful online engagement via social networking.

Her uncanny ability to make any event “social” has allowed her to produce live social media events with Jack and Jill National Visionary Leadership Project, Black Women’s Film Network, Alliance for Women in Media, Women in Film and Television-Atlanta, Spelman College, Urban League of Young Professionals Greater Atlanta, New Leaders Council, Schools that Can, Power Brunch LA and the NAACP. Lauren has previously served as National Communications Director for New Leaders Council and as Community Director Fellow for JackandJillPolitics.com. She also spent a brief time on the campaign trail as the Political Director for Martin Skelly for Congress.

Lauren has been named a New Media Institute Fellow by the National Black Programming Consortium, is an alumni ambassador for New Leaders Council Fellow and is an alumni of New Organizing Institute’s New Media Bootcamp.