Lauren Pierce Bush (born June 25, 1984) is the CEO and Co-Founder of FEED Projects. She is also known for her previous career as a fashion model and designer.[1] She is the daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush (née Smith), granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush and niece of former President George W. Bush.
HOW SHE STARTED
Bush was signed with Elite Model Management before launching FEED. She has been
featured on the covers ofVogue and Vanity Fair magazine and has frequently modeled for Tommy
Hilfiger, as well as for Abercrombie & Fitch and designers Gai Mattiolo andIsaac Mizrahi.
Bush was an intern on the television sitcom Friends,
making a cameo in one episode, and interned alongsideAshley Olsen with designer Zac Posen.[7] In 2005, Bush traveled to Chad as a Student Ambassador for the World Food Program.
In 2007, Lauren Bush
Lauren launched FEED Projects,
a social business to fight world hunger on behalf of the UN World Food Programme.
HER
ACCOMPLISHMENT
FEED Projects has donated over 87
million meals [13] to
date through the sale of products and fundraising activations. In 2014, Lauren
led FEED in launching FEED Supper[14] a
30 day fundraising activation, which asks people to host dinner parties where
guests donate to hunger alleviation. In 2015, she signed an open letter which
the ONE Campaign had been collecting
signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to
focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in
South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in
development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish
new development goals for the generation
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