Lauren Barack is an award-winning Science and Technology Journalist whose work spans print, digital, audio, and television.

​She won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for "Middle Class Crunch," an investigation into the economic pressures facing the middle class that generated over one million views in its first week on MSN Money. She also received an Eddie Award for her COVID-19 coverage at School Library Journal, a Pace Foundation Fellowship in Robotics, a Poynter Fellowship, and an Associated Press Television Radio Association honor.

Lauren writes Stay Sharp, a weekly Substack on the science of learning and aging. Her reported stories and essays have appeared in New Scientist, Newsweek, Wired, Inc., The San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, Fortune, Variety, Salon, The Daily Beast, Parenting, Men's Journal, the New York Post, KQED, and others

She helped launch and develop editorial for GearBrain, a consumer technology news site, and ran Mothers On The Verge, a parenting blog featured on HuffPost. Earlier in her career, she segment-produced comedy shows for Comedy Central, worked as an associate producer on stand-up shows for MTV, and wrote scripts for TNT and VH-1.

Lauren holds a Master of Science in Cognitive Neuroscience from The Graduate Center at CUNY, where her thesis focused on virtual reality in learning, a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley, and a BFA in Filmmaking from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.​