Lauren Harris Dungy is an author and the wife of Tony Dungy, a stellar coach and former NFL player. The pair got married on June 19th, 1982. Lauren Dungy was born on November 2nd, 1957. As of 2023, she is 66 years old.
Early Life and Education
Lauren Dungy was born to Dorris and Leonard Harris. She grew up in Pennsylvania with her parents, brother, Ave, and sister, Taryn.
Career Achievements
Lauren is an author who has published books with her husband. Some of their published works include their 2014 memoir Uncommon Marriage: Learning About Lasting Love And Overcoming Life’s Obstacles Together and Uncommon Influence: Saying Yes To A Purposeful Life.
She now works as a Sunday school teacher as she is a staff at The Central Tampa Baptist Church. She has a background in education and was an elementary school teacher.
Additionally, she serves as the vice president of the nonprofit organization she co-founded with her husband, The Dungy Family Foundation, which provides aid to local communities.
Lauren also serves as an ambassador for iMom, another venture started by her husband. Parenting, marriage, and relational truth are the focal points of iMom, an extension of her husband’s organization, Family First.
Children
Lauren loves fostering children, which the couple does in addition to adopting. Lauren and her husband have three biological children (Tiara, James, and Eric), and seven adopted children (Jordan, Jade, Justin, Jason, Jalen, Jaden, Juewel, and Jaela). In total, they have eleven children.
James, their firstborn biological son, took his own life three days before Christmas 2005.
Personal Life
Forty-one years have passed since Lauren and Tony tied the knot on June 19th, 1982. Lauren and Tony first met after Tony’s lecture at a nearby church in Pennsylvania.
Tony, a high school teacher at the time, and Lauren were introduced by the reverend of the church, who would subsequently marry them less than a year after they started dating.
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