Lauren Hall is a Policy Analyst on the Food Assistance team. Her work focuses on promoting policies that improve access, benefits, and equity in federal food assistance programs, particularly SNAP and WIC. Previously, she was a Health Policy Analyst for Medicaid Provider Services at the Maryland Department of Health. She also conducted research on healthy food purchasing at Johns Hopkins University.

Lauren has a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in Health Policy from Johns Hopkins University.