
Sensei Lauren Charlillo
1st Dan Black Belt - MJJ
Lauren has been doing martial arts since she was 12 years old. She started off in taekwondo with her dad and sister. She achieved her Black Belt in TKD at age 14. Shortly after she started Minna-Jiu-Jitsu in 2010 at her Dad's new Academy. She has been training in Martial Arts ever since. She earned her black belt at 18 years old and has been teaching for 15 years. Lauren graduated from The University of Akron with a Bachelor of science in food and environmental nutrition and has been working full-time in the food industry since 2019, outside of teaching at the Academy, Lauren has been a volunteer counselor with MDA camp for 9 years and more recently Camp Promise with Jett foundation for 2 years now and counting.