Mothers for Organic (continued)

Sandra Steingraber, PhD.
Biologist. Author. Mother.

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., lives with her husband and children in Ithaca, New York. Biologist, author, and cancer survivor, she is the 2001 recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award from Carson's alma mater, Chatham College. Her two books, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment and Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, from which portions of this essay are adapted, have received numerous awards for science writing. Her research on children's environmental health was recently featured on the PBS show, "Now," with Bill Moyers.