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Lara Viesis

Lara Viesis

Head of Events

Bio

Lara joined Founders Pledge in January 2022 as an Event Manager. Lara studied International Relations at the University of Wollongong in Australia before moving over to the UK in 2018. She began her events experience interning at Human Rights Watch and has spent the last three years at the charity Impetus delivering their flagship fundraising events.

Q&A with Lara

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

Sophia Bush! Teenage me would be starstruck and adult me would be impressed by her political activism.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A vet, I have always adored animals!

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

A chaotic comedy starring a brunette Isla Fisher.

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