Laurel Braitman received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in the self-crafted double major of Biology and Writing. Her senior thesis project looked at the unregulated aquarium fish trade originating in Amazonian forest streams. Upon graduation, Laurel taught writing and natural history courses in Bogota, Colombia. She also spent a number of years within the international environmental conservation field, working on sustainable development initiatives throughout Central and South America. Her academic interests revolve around the ways technology informs the implementation of animal reintroduction programs, emergent technologies and their social and environmental ramifications, and the global trade of certain natural commodities such as fish.
environmental history; environmental conservation; global trade; emerging technologies
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