# Tech & Society Lab | Lauren Rothburd

##  Lauren Rothburd

Lab Manager

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Lauren Rothburd is the Lab Manager for the Tech & Society Lab at NYU Stern. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Business from SUNY Albany and a Master of Arts in Psychology from Stony Brook University. Lauren has served in various research positions in hospital settings and has helped initiate a program of research for the certification of a level I trauma center. In addition, she has conducted independent research on the psychological associations of social media use in youth and young adults.

**Childhood Free Play Memory:**
Creating scavenger hunts with my cousins on holidays and at family gatherings. Specifically, on Thanksgiving, we would hide a plastic toy turkey that we’d set our opponents out on a mission to find.