Richard K. Bennett Lectureship
for Peace and Social Justice
Food vs. Fuel: The Future of Food in a World Short of Oil
Dr. Sandra Steingraber
Monday, March 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM and 7 PM
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Dr. Steingraber , is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. It was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with newly released data from U.S. cancer registries. In 1999, the Sierra Club heralded Steingraber as the new Rachel Carson. An enthusiastic and sought-after public speaker, Steingraber has keynoted conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada and has been invited to lecture at many universities, medical schools, and teaching hospitals—including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
