Laura Orlando (She/Her/Hers)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
- Gender Identity: woman
- Sexual Orientation: Lesbian
- First generation college student
- Race, Ethnicity, and/or Nationality: white
- Hometown: Brookline, Massachusetts
I am a civil engineer; executive director of RILES, a nonprofit concerned with public health and the environment; the senior science advisor at Just Zero, a national nonprofit advancing community-centered Zero Waste solutions; co-founder and trustee of the Ecological Health Network; and a contributing editor at Barn Raising Media. I am also the mother of three children. I played ultimate frisbee, basketball, and flag football for many years in Boston. Now I mostly bike: mountain, gravel, and road. I have been an adjunct professor at BUSPH since 2002 and deeply value the connections I have made with students and the opportunity to teach and learn at BU.
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