Axelle Playoust-Braure is a freelance science journalist, currently living in France. Before doing journalism, she graduated from a master degree in sociology and feminist studies at the university of Quebec in Montreal. She has been involved in animal advocacy since 2014 and has been specifically interested in effective animal advocacy since the launch of EA France in 2016. Her goal as a journalist is to cover important and neglected issues related to animal welfare, applied rationality and long-termism.