Lauren Falzarano Prause is director of development for the UConn School of Fine Arts. Lauren has 20 years of development experience and fell into fundraising shortly after graduating from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She worked in politics and healthcare development before she came to UConn in 2005 as assistant director of development, Law. In 2009, she joined Yale University as assistant director of reunion giving for three class cohorts. In 2013, Lauren returned to UConn as director of development covering multiple units. She has happily been embedded at the School of Fine Arts for the last three years and is responsible for raising more than $2.5M annually for SFA's four academic departments and nine performing and exhibiting venues.