My writing career has meandered a bit, starting out in the academic world with several conference presentations and published articles while I was in graduate school and then while I was teaching at several colleges and universities.
Once I moved on to focus on my career in fundraising though, grant proposals and fundraising materials have not been my only writing projects. I have had several different blogs over the years, mainly for fun, and you can read a lot of personal essays and book reviews in different sections of this website.
I have also been asked to give presentations on fundraising in a few different contexts, including a couple of webinars for the statewide professional association Maryland Nonprofits.
Fundraising & Nonprofit Development
Werner, Rachel, and Lauren A. Schultz. "A How-To Guide to Prepare and Submit Government Grants." Maryland Nonprofits. December 2, 2021 and February 17, 2022. Webinar.
Werner, Rachel, and Lauren A. Schultz. "A How-To Guide to Prepare and Submit Government Grants." The Maryland Nonprofits 2021 Annual Conference. Virtual. October 21, 2021.
Academic Work
Schultz, Lauren A. “Hot Chicks with Super Powers: The Contested Feminism of Joss Whedon.” The Essential Whedon Reader. Ed. Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery. Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Schultz, Lauren A. “Haunted: Grief & Narrative Structure in Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” The International Children’s Literature Association Conference. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. June 10, 2010.
Schultz, Lauren A. “It’s Showtime: The Spectacle of the Female Body in Joss Whedon’s Work.” Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida. June 6, 2010.
Schultz, Lauren A. “Concepts of Identity When Nancy Drew Meets Buffy.” Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. Ed. Kevin Durand. McFarland Publications, May 2009.
Schultz, Lauren A. “Not Just a ‘Rather Nasty Experience’: Loss and Longing in Modern Young Adult Fantasy.” M.A. Thesis, American University, Washington D.C., 2009.
Schultz, Lauren A. “From the Nancy Drew Series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Development of Flexible Identity Role Models in Feminist Children's and Adolescent Literature.” Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses. Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. June 8, 2008.
Schultz, Lauren A. “Religious Divisions: Bids for Control Illustrated in Fiction by Atwood & Chevalier.” Under-graduate Honors Symposium. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. April 1, 2005.
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