Laurie Mazur is editor for the Island Press Urban Resilience Project, which is supported by the Kresge Foundation and the JPB Foundation. She has published three books and numerous articles and op-eds on environmental, health and social justice issues. Mazur’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Mazur also founded and for several years directed the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights (now Funders for Reproductive Equity). Earlier in her career, she served as communications director for the Pew Global Stewardship Initiative and as editor of in-house publications for the New York Public Interest Research Group.