Hi, I’m Laura.
I’m a writer ✍️, filmmaker 🎬, technologist 💻, and interdisciplinary problem-solver 🖇️.
I make ideas shelf-stable.💡-> 📦
Product Management 💻
Currently at SurveyMonkey, building new insights solutions
Writing ✍️
Portals Go Both Ways - Are.na Annual 2022
In the wake of high-profile API hacks of political social media platforms, how should we think about using API portals to achieve a better world?
Lens & Power - The Cosmophage, 2020
Filmmakers are uniquely positioned to understand the power behind the lens; is equipping police with more cameras really a solution?
The New Digital Folktale - The Cosmophage, 2022
It's now possible to create a film entirely from a computer. How can we use screens in filmmaking to document new community frameworks and cultural mores?
The End of Gender or Green Transmisogyny? - Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment, 2017
Through research and rhetorical criticism, I argue that the “ecofeminist” group, Deep Green Resistance (DGR), uses gender artifactualism to erase the subjectivity of trans people, and by defining femininity as artificial and inherently subordinate, specifically targets trans women.
Filmmaking 🎥
Winner of Bertha DocHouse's Creative Response to Self-Isolation Competition, 2021
Screened at aCinema’s SONIC GEOLOGIES, a curated group program, 2022
“Uh Huh” by SWIMM official music video
Premiered on OnesToWatch.com, 2018
“Blue Horses” by Little Star official music video
Official selection for Reel Music Festival’s NW Music Video showcase, 2019
Playlists 🎧
Peer inside my brain 🌫️ here