...let's make shit happen!

I am Lauren Raquel.

A collaborator, a facilitator, & a creative.

I currently live in Austin, TX, traveling back to NYC monthly.

I recently traveled to India as a consultant to a coffee company on a mission to source damn good South Indian coffee & less recently to Bhutan, solo, as a counseling graduate student seeking to deepen my multicultural competence.

I worked for an independent publishing company as a project manager, juggling 90 concurrent author projects with unique & specific creative needs, & also as a project and logistics manager for a B Corp delivering over 10,000 meals a week to at-risk students in the greater NYC area during the pandemic.

I taught art & provided pro bono counseling services to pediatric oncology patients & co-curated & organized an annual exhibit of patient artwork at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

I owned & operated Burger Supreme, a viral mid-atlantic burger concept hosted at Smorgasburg, slinging burgers in NYC, Miami, Los Angeles, & Japan. I have overseen logistics for additional food & beverage concepts at wine & food festivals, international boat shows, rockaway beach concessions, & music festivals.

A lifetime ago I spent months documenting an eccentric bookshop owner, turning the photos & prints from our time together into a hand bound book & gallery display. 

I am, admittedly, a generalist - a Jill of all trades, so to speak. I have realized I wouldn't want to be anything else.