Sandra Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award, has lectured before the parliament of the European Union, at various medical conferences, and on college campuses. A visiting scholar at New York’s Ithaca College, her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, and her previous books include Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood. She and her husband, Jeff, have two children—Elijah and Faith.
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