Lauren is Freedom of the Press Foundation’s first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a position established to honor and continue the legendary whistleblower’s fight for secrecy reform. She joins FPF after a decade fighting excessive government secrecy with Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, the National Security Archive. There she served as public policy director and helped historians, journalists, and the public win the declassification of historically significant government documents. Lauren holds a master’s in public policy and a master’s in Middle Eastern studies, both from the University of Chicago.
It’s the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, and the law that released millions of pages of assassination records is over 30 years old. It's time for Congress to resume high-level declassification reviews
An effort by social platform X to weaken the government’s ability to spy on citizens and hide the fact it does so should have broad bipartisan support
Steps President Biden, press, public, and members of Congress must take to fight secrecy abuses to come