2024-01-31 09:50:29
The Women’s Stories commission has chosen to highlight, this month, Lauren Culbertson, facilitator at the Alexis-Peyret Center, with an atypical career path.
Born on January 21, 1995 in Los Angeles, Lauren…
The Women’s Stories commission has chosen to highlight, this month, Lauren Culbertson, facilitator at the Alexis-Peyret Center, with an atypical career path.
Born on January 21, 1995 in Los Angeles, Lauren Culberston spent her childhood with her mother, a pastor in Phoenix, Arizona. Francophile from a very young age, which she does not explain, she took French lessons, in elementary school then in high school. She enrolled in a degree in Arizona and discovered the city of Lyon, as part of an Erasmus-type exchange, in the field of sustainable development and in French, of course.
“When I enrolled in college in the United States, I wanted to study in the international field, I knew I wanted to work and live abroad. The world has always interested me, different cultures, travel…” she adds. While continuing her studies, she supervises children as a sports coach in Phoenix. But the desire is stronger. In 2018, she chose to enroll at the University of Pau in a Master’s degree in Geography, sustainable development, society and territory. “It’s easier to obtain a visa when you’re a student and studies cost less,” she explains.
Motivated
In 2019, she struggled with confinement and completed her Master 2 internship in the Billéroise association De main en main. She is pursuing a civic service mission there, with the plan to develop a partnership with Emmaüs. It is there that she meets Maxime, a cook at the Community, who asks her to marry him.
She is applying for a position as socio-cultural facilitator at the Alexis-Peyret Center. Her application is not accepted but she does not give up. Motivated, she does it again and is finally hired.
Today, she serves as a coordinating facilitator for the Youth Space, a reference in the field of prevention, on social networks and the internet. Every week, she leads debate workshops at the Collège René-Forgues, in Serres-Castet.
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