Laura Weiss

Laura Weiss (she/her) is an editor, journalist, and translator with nearly a decade of editorial experience in digital media and nonprofits in New York City and the Bay Area, California. She focuses on social justice issues, including health equity, activism, disability, and immigration. She has a master’s degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University, where she focused on U.S. policy in Mexico and human rights violations in the context of the drug war, as well as immigration and border politics.

Laura was a Digital Product Manager at The New Republic, where she also served as Social Media Editor, wrote frequent articles, and edited the Power Mad and Apocalypse Soon weekly newsletters, which focused on politics and climate, respectively. She is currently focusing on freelance work and is a regular contributor to Prism Reports and The New Republic.

Before TNR, Laura worked at the North American Congress on Latin America for four years as Web Editor and then Managing Editor. She has been published in The New Republic, Prism Reports, The Nation, LA Review of Books, In These Times, Prism, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, NACLA, Truth Out, Medium, and Huffington Post.

Laura also has a Substack newsletter about the progressive politics of millennial and Gen Z television. You can subscribe here.