Rachel and Me: The Road from SILENT SPRING to LIVING DOWNSTREAM

Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber is a recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. She received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master's degree in English from Illinois State University. Her writing expresses scientific reportage about the natural world in lyrical, poetic prose and earned her the Will Solimene Award from the American Medical Writers Association and recognition from the Sierra Club as "the New Rachel Carson." Steingraber's book Living Downstream presents cancer as a human rights issue. Her 2001 book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood was featured on "Kids and Chemicals," a PBS documentary by Bill Moyers. Parents are welcome to bring children and babies to this event.