Laura Braden

Laura Braden has 20 years of experience across political communications, strategic communications, association communications, professional sports, and the nonprofit sector. She’s Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer of GoldenDoodle AI, and Director of Communications at the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) in Washington, DC, where she’s been the leading national voice on trauma-informed communications practice and policy.

Before that, she spent nearly six years at the California Medical Association as VP of Communications, including as Communications Strategist on their COVID-19 Task Force. She served as Senior Director of Communications for the Sacramento Kings during the financing and community approval process for Golden 1 Center, managing high-stakes community approval work under intense civic scrutiny. Earlier, she served as Deputy Communications Director for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, running earned media strategy on the Governor’s infrastructure, energy, and economic policy work. She started her career in DC and Sacramento strategic communications at Mercury and DCI Group, including crisis communications work on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill response.

That range is what she brings to every engagement. Her trauma-informed lens is not a communication style or a soft skill. It’s how she evaluates whether a campaign’s structure respects the dignity of the people it’s about.