About

Emily Laurence is a journalist and certified health coach living in Cary, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, physical health, and social justice. She also enjoys writing for teens and is a regular contributing writer for Girls’ Life magazine, Teen Vogue, and Anyway magazine. Her work can regularly be seen on sites including GQ, National Geographic, Forbes Health, The Huffington Post, and Parade.

Emily spent six years as a senior 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 music, books, and well-being as the deputy features editor at Metro US newspaper. She was also the entertainment editor at Seventeen.com, hired after working at the tween magazine Twist (now defunct) for three years.

Emily 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.