12 things to know about this gal with the great alliterative name
Lauren Loftus lives in San Diego but spent most of her life in Phoenix, Arizona, with pit stops in the Bay Area and Washington, D.C.
Lauren Loftus wrote about her feelings on being from both Phoenix and San Diego here and here.
Yes, Lauren Loftus has surfed and hopes that impresses you. She also has her motorcycle license but really just wants a Vespa.
Lauren Loftus is a writer, editor, journalist, all-around communications professional. She’s currently the associate editor of Santa Clara Magazine, the magazine of Santa Clara University.
Lauren Loftus’s work has also appeared in The Washington Post, NBC, The Arizona Republic, PHOENIX magazine, OZY.com, KJZZ Phoenix/NPR, The Center for Public Integrity and the Phoenix New Times.
Lauren Loftus earned her Master of Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University where she was named the Outstanding Graduate Student in 2015.
No, Lauren Loftus does not know why that degree/school name is so damn long.
Before that, Lauren Loftus graduated from the University of San Diego with a B.A. in English and a minor in political science just before the economy tanked and moved back in with her parents in Arizona.
Lauren Loftus spent the next three years in a windowless airport hangar in Phoenix summarizing daily news for radio stations in exotic places like Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Lauren Loftus quit to backpack around Central America. She sled down a volcano in Nicaragua, explored a cave via candlelight in Guatemala, surfed in El Salvador, and swam with sharks in Belize. It was awesome.
Lauren Loftus is INTJ. Duh.
Lauren Loftus likes: beach days with her husband, son, and dog, playing tennis and learning to play pickleball, reading fiction, rewatching romcoms, collecting sunglasses, collecting cats, baking pies, binging podcasts, and dancing to angsty pop. Lauren Loftus hates: cucumbers.