Here's to hoping the weather warms up as fast as Lauren Haendler warms up our Repertoire Singers 🌞 #GraduateSpotlight: Lauren is a music education major graduating this June! Next, she will pursue her master's in vocal performance and eventually become a high school choir director. Once she lands a teaching gig, she wants to join a choir or perform opera. “It’s crucial to me as a teacher that I’m also a competent performer,” she said. “Especially as a young woman, when I first enter the classroom, students tend to view me as an older sister, but I’m finding that I’m gaining respect from my students through my competency.”   While it's obvious to her now that she is meant to teach music, in high school she was on her constitutional law team & imagined becoming a civil rights attorney. At the time, she was also heavily involved in music -- taking voice lessons, performing in musicals, and participating in choir. As she approached graduation, her choir director & uosomd alum, ...