Lauralyn Lee

Lauralyn Lee was named the Cathedral's Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer in 2021, where she advises the Dean on opportunities to ensure the Cathedral is a best-in-class destination and a mission-driven organization focused on its core priorities of Welcoming, Deepening, Convening and Serving.  

Prior to joining the Cathedral team full-time, Lauralyn served as a consultant for several years, helping to shape the Cathedral’s five-year Strategic Plan and successfully navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her current capacity, she is a key member of Cathedral leadership, ensuring collaboration, communication and discipline across the organization to promote alignment with strategic priorities and resources. She is charged with identifying and responding to both risks and opportunities, and has been a critical leader in goal-setting, project management development, outcome evaluation, problem solving, resource allocation and Human Resources development.

She oversees the Cathedral’s Visitor Experience, Public Affairs, Communications and Marketing, Revenue, Programs, Employee Experience and Engagement, and Guest and Event Management Services teams. 

Lauralyn is no stranger to the Cathedral; she and her husband was married at the Cathedral, baptized her two children here, and their two daughters attend National Cathedral School. She holds an undergraduate degree from Arizona State University and a law degree from Duke University.

Prior to joining the Cathedral, Lauralyn spent five years as a consultant, working with universities, churches, nonprofit organizations and foundations on a range of issues, including long-term planning, program development and nonprofit management. Her clients included the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Columbia University, Georgetown University, George Mason University, Stockton University, Limestone College, George Washington University, the Florida Aquarium, the International Spy Museum, and several Episcopal parish churches around the nation.

From 2002 through 2015, Lauralyn worked at Georgetown University, where she was the senior administrator charged with establishing and launching the University’s Office of Community Engagement and supporting the University’s institutional planning, community service and civic engagement initiatives. Previously, she spent nearly a decade in Georgetown’s Office of University Counsel, where her portfolio included student academics, athletics and welfare. She has also served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law, in private practice at the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and clerked with Federal District Court Judge Julia Smith Gibbons.

Lauralyn is passionate on issues of educational equity; she serves on the Board of Directors of the Cristo Rey Network, and is the past board chair of Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School. She also served several terms on board of the Catalogue for Philanthropy (now SpurLocal). In 2016, she co-founded Kaleidoscope, a parent-led diversity and inclusion initiative at Beauvoir Cathedral School, and co-chaired the search for Beauvoir’s head of school.

Lauralyn is an active member of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, where she co-chaired a task force to discern the parish’s community outreach program and served on the strategic planning committee. She is past president of the Academy of Hope Board of Directors; an incorporating member of St. John’s Episcopal Preschool LLC; and a former member of the ABA Steering Committee for Death Penalty Moratorium.