Lauren is a co-founder of the YouGov Social Change Monitor.  She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, with topical expertise in social movements and collective action, inequality, occupational perceptions and social psychology, and has more than 15 years quantitative and qualitative research experience. At YouGov, Lauren works out of the San Francisco office where she leverages her strengths in research design and analysis to advise technology clients on custom research studies.