For journalists, producers, and editors.
A working media kit with suggested interview topics, approved bio, and featured commentary. Reach out for tailored briefings, on the record or off.
Everything you need to file the story.
Bio, background, and topic angles. Tailored versions available on request.
Short bio (40 words)
Laurence Baird is a humanitarian security advisor with WUSC, author of A Soldier’s Cry, and an advocate for trauma-informed leadership. Twenty years of frontline experience across seventy plus countries.
Long bio
Available on request. Includes career arc, current role with WUSC, prior roles with World Vision, IRC, CARE International, and Food for the Hungry, and credentials including the Harvard Humanitarian Response Intensive Course.
Photo
Approved press photo available on request. Email the press contact below for the asset pack.
Expertise areas
Military sexual trauma, male survivors, PTSD, BPD, humanitarian duty of care, crisis management, trauma-informed leadership, systemic reform.
Geographies
Field experience in Haiti, Nepal, Syria, South Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Kenya, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Peru, and many more. Available for comment on most current conflicts.
Books
A Soldier’s Cry: Breaking the Silence on Amazon. Press copies available for serious review consideration.
Angles that have legs.
Each angle is reportable, sourced from lived and professional experience, and grounded in current organizational practice.
Why male survivors of military sexual trauma stay silent, and what finally lets them speak
For features on gender, military culture, and policy. Personal narrative paired with systemic analysis.
Duty of care inside humanitarian organizations
For investigative reporting on staff well-being. Twenty years of insider perspective across five major INGOs.
The cost of stigma: what trauma-informed leadership changes in practice
For business and management features. Concrete examples of where the change shows up in operations.
From soldier to humanitarian: identity, reinvention, and what comes after the field
Long-form profile angle, also suitable for podcasts and documentary work.
Mental health in high-risk professions
For health and policy desks. Comparison across military, humanitarian, and emergency-response contexts.
How crisis zones reveal organizational character
For features on leadership, governance, and accountability under pressure.
Where the writing is heading.
Working subjects and short-form commentary. New pieces will land here as they are published.
Why duty of care belongs in the security plan, not the HR handbook
A working argument for moving mental health considerations into operational planning, with examples from humanitarian deployments.
What male survivors actually need from leadership
A short list, drawn from the work and the readers who responded to A Soldier’s Cry. Practical, not theoretical.
The reinvention timeline most veterans underestimate
Notes from the manuscript in progress on resilience and reinvention. Why the transition is longer than anyone tells you, and why that is not a failure.
Stigma is a leadership problem
An organizational view of where stigma is produced inside hierarchies, and how it gets reinforced through silence.
The four signals leaders miss before someone breaks
Field-tested observations on what early indicators look like across humanitarian and military settings.
Notes from seventy countries
A short-form series with observations from the field. What each context taught about safety, dignity, and what people actually need.
Press contact, direct.
For interviews, expert comment, or review copies, email lbaird81@gmail.com or use the form. Replies are usually same week.
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