Lori Shridhare is a director of communications at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a freelance journalist, editor, and science writer specializing in human rights and medicine, collective trauma, and topics in bioethics and anatomy. Her writing has appeared in Harvard Medicine magazine, Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change, The Harvard Gazette, MIT News, Dillydoun Review, Tricycle, Positive News UK, and The Seventh Wave. She received her BA in English from the University of Rhode Island, and MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.