Lauren Shutt

lauren.shutt@vt.edu

Web Developer, Marketing and Communications

Lauren Shutt is a web designer and developer with a passion for creating engaging digital experiences. She supports LINK: Center for Advancing Partnerships web strategy by collaborating with designers, stakeholders, and writers to manage content and create clean, accessible front-end code that translates into a compelling web presence.

Prior to joining the creative studio that collaborates with LINK and the university’s principal partnerships team, Lauren worked as the inaugural accessibility developer for the Office of Equity and Accessibility, the web manager for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and webmaster for the Center for Power Electronics Systems. She began her career in web development as the electronic communications manager for the Anchorage School District in Anchorage, Alaska, where she also worked for Title VII (now Title VI) Indian Education.

Lauren has a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Alaska, Anchorage; an M.A. in anthropology from George Mason University; and a graduate certificate in leading education systems from Harvard. She has also taken graduate courses in American Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany.