Lauren Eyster is a senior research associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where her research focuses on innovative workforce development programs and how to best evaluate and learn from them. Most recently, Eyster has examined industry-focused job training and career pathway initiatives implemented through the workforce investment system and at community colleges. She studies how these programs can best provide education and training to different groups such as laid-off workers, youths, low-income individuals, and older workers. She also researches how systems and various stakeholders can collaborate to help these individuals find and retain jobs.

Eyster holds an MPP from the Johns Hopkins University.