Emily Laber-Warren is a freelance writer and editor who contributes to Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, and Earth 3.0, among other publications. Until 2007, she was special projects editor at Women’s Health, and from 2001 to 2005 she was at Popular Science, first as features editor and then as executive editor. Previously, she was a senior editor at The Sciences. Laber-Warren began her career as a reporter at daily newspapers, including the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire, where she covered education and city hall, and The Record in Hackensack, N.J., where she covered the environment. Laber-Warren has been a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism, and during her tenure at Popular Science and The Sciences, the magazines won four National Magazine Awards. For the past 10 years she has taught feature writing in NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program. She has a B.A. in Humanities from Yale.