Lauren Evans:  

In a nutshell, I live north of Boston and have been in the general area since my family moved here from Portland, Oregon via Princeton, NJ while I was in high school. I attended two elementary schools in Princeton, then we moved up to Belmont, MA for my fifth grade. We drove across the country in the summer of 1962 to Portland, where I went to sixth grade at the Llewellyn School, after which we moved nearer to Reed College where my dad was teaching and I went to the Duniway School for seventh and eighth grades. For the first semester of freshman year I went to Cleveland HS, then for the second semester we went back to Princeton and were supposed to return to Portland in June. However, there was a big change of plans (about which only my father was happy) and we came up to west of Boston where I spend three years at Acton-Boxborough Regional HS and graduated in 1969 near the top of my class. My freshman year in college was back in Portland at Reed, but I learned that you can't really go home again and, while I loved being back in Portland, it was really all the great people I knew in elementary and high school who had made it so special. I ended up transferring to Tufts University in Medford, MA. While I was there I spent my junior year abroad in London, UK, studying theatre, literature, and voice, and graduated with a degree in English. My career has been varied, working in television production, movie production (including being an extra), arts management, higher education, environmental consulting, wh...Expand for more