Lara Naughton

Lara Naughton is an author and documentary playwright. Her memoir, The Jaguar Man, was just published and her play Never Fight a Shark in Water: The Wrongful Conviction of Gregory Bright has been performed around the country. She is a certified Compassion Cultivation Trainer through The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University; Director of CompassionNOLA; and Chair of Creative Writing at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.