About Mira's Award-winning Author: Anne Brataas
Anne Brataas is an award-winning author of nature essays, science curriculum and newspaper reporting. As principal and founder of the international science communications consultancy, The Story Laboratory, LLC, based in Minnesota (www.thestorylaboratory.com) she holds a Master’s degree in zoology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; a Master’s degree in Environmental Science, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; and is working glacially toward her Ph.D. in the visual rhetoric of science. A science teacher with the Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth for nearly 20 years, Anne lives in St. Paul and Grand Marais, Minnesota, with her engineer husband who inspires Mira’s fixy-ness. They are parents of two sons, now in college, who inspire Mira’s wonder ethic and Anne’s eternal awe.
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Anne's First Principle: Ethical empathy. Strive to live and act in empathy with all of creation to bring justice, joy and integrity to help build a commons of wellbeing.
Anne cares deeply about and is animated by acts of imaginative daring and truth that improve the quality of the time each of us has on the planet, while also preserving all natural systems of the planet: land, air, water, rocks and all creatures that co-create, and depend on the health of these natural systems. You can read Anne's core service mission statements by clicking the links below.
