Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cornell University.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cornell University.
She is Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine and a Contributing Writer for People’s Up Magazine. She is also an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company,The New Inquiry, Salon, and a variety of other publications.
Laurel frequently collaborates with visual artists and musicians like Black Prairie to create concerts for all-animal audiences, such as wolves.
Braitman was born and raised on a citrus farm near Ventura in southern California. She worked as an intern in the Weekend Edition Saturday program at National Public Radio. She received a John South. Hennessey scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where in 2013 she received her Doctor of Philosophy in the history and anthropology of science.
Braitman lives in San Francisco, California.
She majored in Biology and Writing at Cornell University, where she was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and graduated summa cum laude.