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Lauren Henderson (born 1986) is a public relations and corporate communications practitioner originally from [[Chicago, Illinois]]

Life and Career
Henderson graduated from [[[University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana–Champaign]]] in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts B.A. in English and a minor in Spanish. She is currently pursuing a [[Master’s degree in Public Relations]] at the [[S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications]] at Syracuse University.

Professionally, Henderson has completed several internships most recently a four month position in the spring of 2010 in the Corporate Communications department of Edelman Public Relations in Chicago, Ill focusing on clients in the technology. Prior to this experience she spent six months in the fall of 2009 as an intern with public relations firm MWW Group in Chicago, Ill focusing on clients in the consumer goods industry. Her interest in Communications field was cemented by a three month position in the summer of 2008 with advertising agency Grey Direct and Digital in New York City, NY focusing on clients in the media buying and planning arena. Henderson first became exposed to public relations when she worked as a marketing intern for four months in the spring 2007 with a small nonprofit publishing house Dalkey Archive Press in Champaign, Ill.