Whitny Braun de Lobaton was born on April 22,1984 and is an American bioethicist, professor, investigative researcher, documentary filmmaker and podcaster who has been featured on the Discovery Channel as the host and executive producer of "Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln" and co-hosts the podcast "The Murders at Starved Rock with Andy Hale".
15 Facts About Whitny Braun
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Whitny Braun has been featured on NPR and the National Geographic Channel television program "Taboo".
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Whitny Braun has served as a contributor for the Huffington Post.
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Whitny Braun is currently the director of the master's in bioethics and professor of bioethics at Loma Linda University.
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Whitny Braun has spoken at several international conferences about world religions' philosophical approaches to artificial reproductive technology and the embryo industry in the United States as well as the ethics of disaster management and quarantine.
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Whitny Braun has been published in "Natural Transitions" magazine, a publication which examines options for the dying process and has been interviewed on the topic of Sallekhana by Scientific American Magazine.
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Whitny Braun's research has been featured in an interview with Steve Lopez of the LA Times.
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Whitny Braun documented the final days of a woman who took Sallekhana in Texas in 2013 named Dr Bhagwati Gada.
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The appeal featured excerpts from Whitny Braun's dissertation arguing the philosophical and legal nature of the act of Sallekhana.
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In 2020, Whitny Braun hosted and served as executive producer of Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln, a documentary special that aired on Discovery.
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In 2021 Whitny Braun served as the supervising producer and lead researcher of "The Murders at Starved Rock" a documentary series exploring the 1960 triple homicide of three suburban women in Starved Rock State Park.
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Whitny Braun was born in Redlands, California and raised between Downey, California and Coulterville, California.
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Whitny Braun was born into the Seventh-day Adventist church as a seventh-generation member of the church through her mother's line.
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Whitny Braun is currently an associate scholar of the Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University, and the Associate Director of the Center for Understanding World Religions based as her research looking at anthropological and sociological aspects of Eastern and Central Asian religions and their applications towards bioethics.
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Braun is the daughter of firearms historian and gunsmith Dr James Braun, featured alongside her in the Discovery Channel documentary "Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln", and the granddaughter of physicist and physician Dr Ernest Braun who pioneered early nuclear medicine technologies in cancer therapy and the great-great-granddaughter of Ory T Davis, pioneering photographer of the Old West.