About Me
Laura Charney is a writer and researcher based in Brooklyn. Originally from Canada, she received her BA in Archaeology and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto, and got her Master's in Human Rights Policy from Columbia University. Her research and writing, largely investigating the paradoxes of the human rights world, has been funded by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Zeit-Stiftung Institute, and the Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights.
She has worked for the American Folk Art Museum, PEN America, the Institute for State and Local Governance, and Columbia University. Previously, she conducted archaeological field work in Peru, produced a radio show in Montreal, and worked at a humanitarian organization in Serbian refugee camps. She also was a reporter on the pop music beat for the (now-defunct) Canadian publication The A.side.
When she's not writing about criminal justice reform, she is running a micro urban flower farm and floral studio out of her backyard called Flowers For All.