Presentation Title: Funny Side Up: Bringing Laughter to the Tough Stuff, Conference Emcee

Bio: Lauren LoGiudice is a comedian, actor, award-winning filmmaker, and author of Amazon Kindle Best Seller Inside Melania: What I Know About Melania Trump by Impersonating Her. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, BBC, Bust Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Hyperallergic, among others. Her writing has been called “criminal.” Her TV and film credits include Veep, Brave the Dark and Galaxy360, as well as several national commercial campaigns. Moth StorySLAM Champ Lauren continues to create comedy through the lens of her unique personal experience with stand up and deeply flawed, painfully idiosyncratic character videos that have garnered over 12 million views, while producing her podcast Misfits Makin’ It on Radio Misfits Podcast Network.