Lauren Freeman is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, a core faculty member in the MA program in bioethics and medical humanities, and a former collaborator with the Center for Mental Health Disparities (Department of Psychology). She works on feminist bioethics, philosophy of medicine, phenomenology, and philosophy of emotion (and has a side interest in philosophical pedagogy). Her research has dealt with topics such as epistemic injustice in pregnancy, phenomenological accounts of racial oppression, stereotype and implicit bias, problems in media representations of scientific studies, the difference between mood and emotion, and has appeared in journals such as Inquiry, The International Journal on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Philosophy Compass, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Philosophy Today, as well as in Hypatia, The Review of Metaphysics, and the American Journal of Bioethics. She has co-edited a special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences on the topic of the phenomenology and science of emotions and is currently editing a special issue of the International Journal on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics on the theme of "Feminist Phenomenology, Medicine, Bioethics, and Health." In 2016, she was interviewed by Nature on her co-authored work on the placental microbiome. She has also been an invited speaker at various universities including Princeton University, Harvard University, and University of Toronto (School of Medicine).