Lauren Bon is an Annenberg family member and self-styled “environmental artist.” [1] Along with her brothers Gregory and Charles Annenberg, she is an heir to the Annenberg family fortune and vice president of the Annenberg Foundation. [2] The foundation, with $1.4 billion in assets, was the 50th largest foundation in the United States as of 2018. [3]
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Family Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking organization that has supported environmentalist organizations, animal liberation groups, and organizations that engage in race-focused social policy. [4] In 2019, the Annenberg Foundation paid Lauren Bon $75,898 in compensation and $38,457 in benefits. [5]
Early Life
Lauren Bon was born in 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [6]
In 2004, Lauren Bon contributed $2,000 to the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). [7]
Art Projects
In 2005 Lauren Bon undertook a $3 million art project that transformed 32 acres of brownfield land in downtown Los Angeles into a cornfield, [8] which served as a “living sculpture.” [9]
The cornfield operated for one agricultural cycle, [10] and was funded by the Annenberg Foundation. [11]