Lauren Valdez Newsletter

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash We are in a public health narrative imagination battle. We are winning on the narrative of reframing racism as a public…

Jul 1

I time travel to find peace. When I’m stressed about the state of the world, I hold my great-great-grandma Catarina’s rosary and think about her being …

May 4

You won't hear this on the news, so I'm sharing. Toxic chemicals are filling the air in my hometown right now after the Marathon Oil Refinery on the bo…

Feb 27

Hello from Singapore! I spent a month in the Philippines connecting with my husband’s massive extended family, and now I’m traveling between Singapore …

Feb 5

Advent [ad-vent]: (noun) a coming into place, view, or being; the arrival My theme for 2019 was Advent: my year of arriving or coming into being. Most …

Dec 27, 2019

I’m closing out one rotation around the sun and 12 moon cycles around me. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, this year I completed being alive for a bil…

Oct 14, 2019

What I've learned in my journey to Mexico & self-employment

Oct 1, 2019

Takeaways from Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Aug 13, 2019

Welcome to my very first newsletter! For the third year, I am continuing my online summer course Win A Fulbright, where I coach people through an inten…

Jun 23, 2019

I am starting a blog and newsletter. I feel weird about sharing my ideas and what I do publicly, but I'm learning a ton that I want to share about movi…

May 16, 2019

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