having faith an ecologist's journey to motherhood

She received her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan and master’s degree in English from Illinois State University. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. Photo by Frank DiMeo, courtesy Cornell University Photography. A columnist for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a scholar in residence in Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.About Ecologist, Author, and Cancer Survivor Sandra Steingraber Sandra Steingraber. In Steingraber’s most recent book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, she describes the challenge of raising children in a world where toxic chemicals are legally permitted circulate in our economy, and makes the case that our ongoing environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of family life. The Library Journal selected Having Faith as a best book of 2001, and it was featured in Bill Moyers’ 2002 documentary Kids and Chemicals.

Another of Steingraber’s books, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, was both a memoir of her own pregnancy and an investigation of fetal toxicology.

It won praise from international media including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. Her bladder cancer diagnosis at age 20, and her belief that this diagnosis was caused by toxins in her environment, is a frequent subject of her talks. She has also been invited to speak throughout the United States and Canada at conferences on human health and the environment, and has been invited to lecture at many universities, medical schools, and hospitals. Steingraber has testified in the European Parliament, before the President’s Cancer Panel, and has participated in briefings to Congress and before United Nations delegates in Geneva, Switzerland. Steingraber received a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund in 2006, and the Environmental Health Champion Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles, in 2009. Magazine Woman of the Year, and the Sierra Club has heralded her as “the new Rachel Carson.” Carson’s own alma mater, Chatham College, selected Steingraber to receive its biennial Rachel Carson Leadership Award. Called “a poet with a knife” by Sojourner magazine, Steingraber has received many honors for her work as a science writer. Ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber is an internationally-recognized authority on environmental links to cancer and human health.

Having faith an ecologist's journey to motherhood