About

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer, and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about health, lifestyle, and social justice. She also enjoys writing for teens. Her work can regularly be seen on sites including GQ, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Parade.

Emily spent six years as an editor and writer at Well+Good, covering everything from food trends to serious issues like the opioid crisis in America, gun violence, and women being sexually abused in hospital settings.

Prior to Well+Good, Emily covered well-being for Metro newspaper and was the entertainment editor at Seventeen.com. She's worked at Twist magazine and ELLE.com, and has written for TeenVogue.com, MarieClaire.com, MTV.com, and many more publications.

Emily also spent four years as a contributing editor for Girlfriend magazine Australia, writing monthly features about sex, mental health, and feminism. She also wrote one article each issue for the As Told By You section, profiling teen girls with extraordinary stories. She's written about a teen living with H.I.V., teen millionaires, a teen who doesn't physically feel pain, and other one-of-a-kind tales. 

Emily graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she studied magazine journalism and child & family studies. While in college, she was features editor of 20 Watts, the campus music magazine, wrote for The Daily Orange as well as several on-campus magazines including Jerk and Equal Time.