Lauren Y. Casteel

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.

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] She 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.