Lauren Simone Blogs

George Floyd’s death two years ago sparked a movement across the nation that can still be felt today. Amid a pandemic, people took to the streets to protest and speak for the Black lives whose voices have since been silenced. We watched and participated in protests, coming together by the thousands to support the Black Lives Matter movement. People held signs with quotes of Floyd’s last words and signs screaming for justice on behalf of George Floyd and others unjustly killed. George Floyd has become a symbol of unity, but our nation is still far from equal. Although there has...

Joseph Inigo is one of Lauren Simone Publishing House's newest author.  Not only is he an author, he is also an entrepreneur who co-founded The Music Note Kids Club, an educational entertainment company built inspire growth and maturity through books, cartoons, clothing, music, autism awareness, computer science, puppetry, ecology, games, apps and much more.   In his Music Note Kids Club, Joseph and his team use puppetry as a form of expression where kids write their own story first in a storyboard format where they then take the puppets to act out their story.  He was recently nominated by Hartford Yard Goats...

reSET, Social Enterprise Trust is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance the social enterprise sector. Its strategic goals are threefold: to be the “go-to” place for impact entrepreneurs, to make Hartford the Impact City, and Connecticut the social enterprise state. reSET serves all entrepreneurs but specializes in social enterprise impact-driven business with a double and sometimes triple bottom line. In addition to providing co-working space and accelerator and mentoring programs, reSET aims to inspire innovation and community collaboration, and to support entrepreneurs in creating market-based solutions to community challenges. reSET’s goal is to meet entrepreneurs wherever they are...

Rosamond S. White is the author of Home, Where is Home? She is one of Lauren Simone Publishing House's newest author who was recently seen on Channel 5. Lift Every Voice hosted by Vanessa Jenkins and Tabitha Harris welcomed our author to learn about her contributions in the community.  She claims her birthplace of Antigua and Barbuda and her maternal home Commonwealth of Dominica in the Caribbean. She immigrated to Brooklyn, New York as a teenager. She holds a BA in History from Marymount College Tarrytown-Fordham University. Dual MS degrees, Human Resources from the New School of Social Research in...