Laura Prugh obtained a BA in Biology from Earlham College, and she then conducted her PhD at the University of British Columbia on the foraging ecology of coyotes in the Alaska Range under the supervision of Charley Krebs. She conducted postdoctoral work at UBC and UC Berkeley, and she was an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks until 2015. She is now an assistant professor of quantitative wildlife sciences in SEFS at UW. Her research examines the dynamics of wildlife populations and communities, with a particular focus on facilitation, trophic interactions, and indirect effects.