Lauren Haddad

Lauren Haddad is an Iraqi-American from metro-Detroit who currently lives and works as an herbalist in a small village in Switzerland. Pursuing the question of why she would be drawn to a place of tragedy, Haddad followed the pull to Prince George’s paradoxical wilderness and industry, expanding still-ongoing conversations with the indigenous community there into a grant-sponsored photo-journalism project, “Medicine Tree”, which in collaboration with photographer Lucas Olivet received an honorable mention for Duke University’s Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Haddad studied holistic nutrition in Vancouver, herbalism in Williams, Oregon and is a graduate with honors of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her essay on Prince George will be featured in the forthcoming Skinnerboox publication Medicine Tree.