Laurel Braitman

Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer, and a TED Fellow.

She is Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine and a Contributing Writer for Pop 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.

Education

Braitman was born and raised on a citrus farm near Ventura in southern 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. She worked as an intern in the Weekend Edition Saturday program at NPR. What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love (2023)

Essays and reporting