Lauren is a social entrepreneur focused in Human Rights causes. In 2012 she founded the NGO Nueva Oportunidad that has as the objetive to support of the prison inmates population in their re-insertation process into society through the economic empowerment . As a part of her work, she advocates to improvement of the conditions of de prisons in Costa Rica and change the Penitenciary Polices. She has studies in Law and Business Managment, and a master degree in Justice Policy and Sociology of Criminal Law. She is professor at the Business School of Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica.