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Lauren Santa Cruz is the senior director of digital creative for the Digital Advocacy team at American Progress. She comes from The Hub Project, where, as the associate director of creative, she was responsible for helping to launch the organization and leading visual content production for its campaigns teams and partners.
Prior to jumping into the advocacy world, Santa Cruz spent three years as lead field and international producer/editor for Fusion’s flagship show, “America with Jorge Ramos.” Santa Cruz was nominated for a National Association of Hispanic Journalists award in TV/online journalism alongside anchorman Jorge Ramos for their story “Watch Jorge Ramos Swim Across the Rio Grande” where together they swam from the United States to Mexico. Santa Cruz started her career field producing and shooting video for organizations such as Time magazine, Special Olympics, and the Knight Foundation for International Journalism. Santa Cruz graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s in photography and psychology, and she subsequently earned a master’s degree in multimedia journalism.
With her family roots in Colombia, Santa Cruz was the first in her family to be born in the United States, and she was raised in Miami. She suffers from a constant state of wanderlust and can usually be found at the departure terminal of your closest international airport.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund produced a video series documenting what is at stake in three real stories of how unions make the middle class.
The American Dream hangs in the balance as Congress considers cuts to human-needs programs that lift millions out of poverty and expand economic opportunity to all. The choices we make next will determine the economic security of our families and our future economic competitiveness.
