Join the community rallying around Lauren's legacy.
Scholarships, mentorship, and financial literacy for the next generation of young Black women of brilliance, leadership, and purpose. Every gift — from $25 to a full $2,500 scholarship — keeps Lauren’s legacy alive.
Black women carry the heaviest student debt burden in the country.
Black women face the largest student loan debt of any group in America1 , and this burden is compounded by the racial wealth and gender pay gaps, making financial stability difficult.2
The issue is a lack of resources, not effort; Black women earn degrees at high rates than many of their peers3 but lack financial support.
Lauren’s Legacy Scholarship Foundation addresses this gap by funding scholarships for high-achieving young Black women (2.5+ GPA, financial need, leadership). Our $2,500 awards remove financial barriers.
In our first year, we awarded four scholarships out of 70 applications and retained 100% of our scholars. As one scholar noted, “This scholarship gives me the opportunity to begin my journey with confidence.”
Your donation expands this critical support in 2026.
1Education Trust, How Black Women Experience Student Debt (2022). Based on federal NPSAS and Baccalaureate & Beyond data. edtrust.org
2American Association of University Women, Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans. aauw.org
3U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
Lauren's own ideas are still changing lives.
In January 2023, Lauren’s father, a longtime LA County District Attorney, was worried about a colleague who had been assaulted walking to catch her train home. He asked Lauren how the office could better protect employees who relied on public transit. She had an answer ready: create a shuttle service to safely transport staff between the office and nearby train stations.
Her father presented the idea. Within months, the shuttle service was running. In August 2025, the LA County District Attorney’s Office renamed it The Lauren Line in her honor.
That same spirit lives in the scholars who carry her name today. Gianna, one of our inaugural scholarship recipients, said it this way: “I aspire to touch the lives of others the same way Lauren did. I’m so happy to be part of the LLSF family.”
When you give, you fund a foundation that works the same way Lauren did, and a generation of young women doing the same.
Here's exactly what your gift makes possible.
Course materials for a young woman in her first year of college.
One seat in our quarterly workshops where scholars learn to budget, save, and build wealth.
Perfect if your employer offers a matching funds program. Or team up with another donor to fully fund one young woman's scholarship.
Become the donor behind a single scholar's entire award. The most direct way to make a difference.
Tax-deductible · EIN 99-2900317
Who you're giving in honor of.
Lauren Delayne Hicks was a daughter, a sister, a Spelman Woman who graduated cum laude: c/o 2020. She was a community builder before she had the title.
She passed in February 2023, at 25, from an undiagnosed pulmonary embolism caused by Deep Vein Thrombosis. Her family built this foundation so her love for community, her commitment to other young Black women, and her belief that education changes everything would keep working after her.
Delayne Hicks