Laura Kurtzberg
PULITZER CENTER ALUM AND GRANTEE
Laura Jael Kurtzberg is a data visualization specialist, cartographer, and a news applications developer with a particular interest in environmental stories. Kurtzberg has worked at the intersection of data journalism and design with organizations like InfoAmazonia, Ambiental Media, WLRN Public Media, and Mongabay.
She earned her MFA in interactive media from the University of Miami and a B.A. in information science from the University of Arizona. She remembers her first forays into data and communication with groups at Biosphere2 (the space colony training ground featured in the documentary Spaceship Earth) and The Santa Fe Institute (a complexity science research center).
