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Lauren Pollina
Executive Creative Director
21GRAMS

NEW YORK, USA // With over 15 years in healthcare advertising, Lauren has helped shape brands from the tiny to the blockbuster, from launches to LOEs, from medications that treat terminal diseases to lotions that can make for a less stressful bath-time experience for new moms.

Last year, Lauren became the first ever Executive Creative Director of 21GRAMS New York. In 2018, she was one of the agency’s first creative hires, helping to lay the groundwork for its rapid success. In just 3½ years, 21GRAMS has grown from 40 people to over 400 and was named one of the top 5 healthcare agencies in the world. Lauren co-created the reality series that was featured at the Behind the Work stage at Cannes in 2019. She led the teams behind the agency’s first Clio Health and Cannes Lion wins in 2021. And she became a mom for the second time in 2020, so, you know, no slouch there.

Lauren has nearly completed her pandemic BINGO card, supplementing a pandemic baby with a move to the suburbs, a new dog, a brief banana bread period, and a bad habit of waving awkwardly at the end of Zoom meetings.