Dr. Sandra Steingraber
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies
Dr. Sandra Steingraber has been a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies since 2003. In addition to being a very successful author (Living Downstream) and a contributor to book chapters in anthologized collections, a peer-reviewed monograph, a chapbook, eight magazine articles and essays – including two national cover stories - , several op-ed essays, and book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, she has also served as a contributing editor and columnist to the national environmental magazine Orion, and as a biologist with expertise in environmental causes of cancer, she has for the past two years served on the steering committee of the California Breast Cancer Research Program (the world’s 4th largest funder of breast cancer research). To that end, Sandra has served as contributing author and editor of Identifying Gaps in Breast Cancer Research: Addressing Disparities and the Roles of the Physical and Social Environment (a 500-page, peer-reviewed document. As a result of Dr. Steingraber’s ongoing work on breast cancer, she received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award in 2006 (along with Teresa Heinz Kerry).
As a public speaker, Sandra has given more than 100 public lectures and readings over the past four years and has keynoted more than two-dozen conferences. Highlights include the keynote address at the 20th anniversary conference of the Superfund program, sponsored by the National Institute for Health and Environmental Sciences at Duke University, a public lecture at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, the keynote address to the biannual convocation of the Health and Environmental Funders Network, two keynote addresses for the Heinz Conference on Women’s Environmental Health in both Boston and Pittsburgh, and keynote addresses for several major breast cancer conferences, such as, most recently, the CBCRP annual conference in Los Angeles. Dr. Steingraber has also been awarded endowed funding which will enable her to give ten public lectures a year, allowing her to speak more visibly to grassroots organizations.
On behalf of the Breast Cancer Fund, Sandra recently traveled to Washington, DC to provide a U.S. Congressional briefing on the falling age of puberty in U.S. girls.
Through Dr. Steingraber’s work as a scholar and a speaker, she has provided many interviews and commentaries to the mass media. She has appeared on National Public Radio, CNN’s Anderson Cooper Show, the Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, and Good Morning America, along with numerous local and regional radio and television appearances in cities across the United States.
Living Downstream, which is widely used as a college textbook, recently been made into a documentary. Please click onto this link to view the film: http://www.theppcinc.com/projects/livingdownstream/index.html.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber was just interviewed by the Ithaca Journal (December 4, 2008 issue) on the topic of chemicals and toys. To read the article, please go to ithacajournal.com.
