Laura Kurtzberg
Training Director at Ambiental Media
United States
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Top SchoolLaura Kurtzberg is a training director and interdisciplinary technologist with 12 years of experience at the intersection of journalism, data visualization, and environmental science. She builds interactive web tools, maps, and visual storytelling platforms—bringing hands-on engineering (React/TypeScript) together with curriculum design and newsroom training. Laura has led immersive-technology workshops and taught interactive data visualization and creative coding as an assistant professor and co-director of an altered-reality studio. Her work on environmental data projects spans field research in the Amazon to production web apps that translate complex science into compelling public-facing narratives. Known for blending cartography and visualization design, she mentors journalists and students to turn messy datasets into actionable stories.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Interactive Media, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Interactive Media at University of Miami
Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (3)
iot-cloud2
internet-of-things1
iot1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
laurakurtzberg/personal-website
May 2019 - May 2023
My personal portfolio site!
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 4 years
reactnextjstypescript
oeco/fogos-app
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 push in 5 months
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