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Dr. Lauren Pinkston is the president of Kindred Exchange, an organization that exists to help others do missions ethically and sustainably across cultures. She is also an Assistant Professor of Business as Mission at Lipscomb University. From 2014-2019, she lived in Southeast Asia combining community development philosophies with organic business models to bootstrap effective economic change for families needing safe work. While completing her doctoral dissertation with Clemson University, she discovered business to be a catalyst for community development, especially for survivors of exploitative labor.
Lauren enjoys traveling with her family, cooking, and writing about the convergence of faith, culture and justice. She is actively involved with civic responsibilities in her town of Columbia, Tennessee, and is an advocate for ethical supply chains and employment practices.
