Lauren Jade Arnold (she/her) is a mixed methods, critical researcher who focuses primarily on mental illness in communities of color and intervention development for unacknowledged sexual assault victims with an emphasis on intersectionality and equity. Jade is particularly interested in leveraging art and personalized technologies to explore traumatic experiences and healing.

Jade holds a BA in communication and a BA in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder where she also received her MFA in creative writing (fiction) as a Center for Humanities Arts & Sciences fellow. Her creative work can be found in The Denver Post, the Museum of Boulder, and elsewhere and has been awarded the Hurston/Wright Foundation Black College Writers 2022 Award, among others. She has also presented at the International Communication Association Conference in the Language & Social Interaction division several times.

Jade is passionate about combining the personal with the academic and pooling her research into written and visual forms including documentary and graphic design. Her first love will always be all things music-soul, R&B, folk, jazz, funk, classical, hip hop-cinema, and storytelling.