Lauren Young Casteel (born 1953) is an African-American activist who advocates for social justice. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.

The daughter of Margaret Buckner and Whitney M. Young, Jr.,[1] she was born Lauren Young in Nebraska and moved to Colorado when she was twenty. Casteel has been a leader of the Denver Foundation, the Hunt Alternatives Fund and the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation. At the Denver Foundation, she instituted the Nonprofit Internship Program and the Nonprofit Inclusiveness Project; the second project received the Council on Foundations’ Critical Impact Award.[2]

Casteel was the first black woman to head a foundation in Colorado, the first female black TV personality in Colorado and the first female senior communications advisor to a Denver mayor.[3]

She was married to Charles Casteel, an attorney.[4] She is the mother of painter Jordan Casteel.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Margaret B. Young, Writer of Children's Books on Blacks, Dies at 88". New York Times. December 18, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Lauren Young Casteel". Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
  3. ↑ "10 to be inducted into Colorado Women's Hall of Fame". Gazette. March 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Delta Eta - History". Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
  5. ↑ "Review: Jordan Casteel Faces Forward at the Denver Art Museum". 19 February 2019.
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