Blair Braverman was born on May 7,1988 and is an American adventurer, dogsled racer, musher, advice columnist and writer.
12 Facts About Blair Braverman
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Blair Braverman was born on May 7,1988, the daughter of research scientist Jana Kay Slater and university professor and author Marc Blair Braverman.
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Blair Braverman returned to the United States in 2007, graduating from Colby College in 2011.
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Blair Braverman spent two summers working as a dogsled guide on a glacier in Alaska.
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Blair Braverman later earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she was an Arts Fellow.
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Blair Braverman has been resident Fellow at Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony.
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Blair Braverman has written articles exploring gender, trans issues, and online harassment.
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Blair Braverman is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine, and wrote a regular advice column called "Tough Love" dealing with relationships and the outdoors.
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Blair Braverman's work has appeared in The Atavist, BuzzFeed, and the Smithsonian, among others.
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Blair Braverman trained for the 2018 Iditarod and completed the 2019 Iditarod, finishing 36th.
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Blair Braverman was only the second Jewish woman to have completed the race.
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Blair Braverman appeared on a special episode of Discovery's Naked and Afraid in 2019, an experience she wrote about in detail for Outside.