Laura Hooberman

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Laura Hooberman (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Critical Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Broadly, her research interests center on the interweaving of reproductive injustices, biomedicalization, structural violence, and resistance. Her dissertation focuses on breastfeeding experiences in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), exploring how intimacy emerges within, and is disrupted by, the highly medicalized environment of the NICU. Laura is a 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellow.