SPEAKING
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To book her, please contact Charles Yao: cyao@thelavinagency.com.
Talks
Laurel loves speaking to audiences large and small about how to become better and more authentic communicators, embrace change and transformation, improve mental health and build resilience.
She has given keynote talks and lectures at leading universities and research centers around the world, in art and science museums, while leading walks in the woods, at historic theaters, onstage at symphony halls, in Sigmund Freud's old living room, and once, on a floating platform in the Amazon Basin.
She is represented by the Lavin Agency.
To book her, please contact Charles Yao: cyao@thelavinagency.com.
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Laurel Braitman PhD is a New York Times bestselling author and the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Medical Humanities and the Arts Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Science, Technology and Society from MIT, and is a Senior TED Fellow. Her new book “What Looks Like Bravery: An epic journey from loss to love” has just come out with Simon & Schuster. Her last book, Animal Madness, was a NYT bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. She is the founder of the global community of writing healthcare professionals, Writing Medicine, now in it’s third year. Her work has been featured on the BBC, NPR, Good Morning America and Al Jazeera. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, on Radiolab, in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, National Geographic and other publications.
Laurel lives on her family’s citrus and avocado ranch in Southern California.