Sandra Steingraber

An international anti-fracking activist & biologist who fights for environmental rights as a basic human right.

  • Hailed as the “next Rachel Carson”, devoting her life’s work to understanding the ways in which chemical contaminants in air, water and food endanger human health.
  • Winner of the Annual Heinz Award.
  • Named “Woman of the Year” by Ms. Magazine
  • Recipient of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award
  • She is the author of Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis and Living Downstream, which prompted a highly-acclaimed documentary of the same name.
  • The documentary film Unfractured, features Steingraber’s activism and passion to fight with your whole heart.

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Sandra Steingraber not only does great science, she also has a marvelous ability with words, communicating information in a warm and understandable way.

- Carleton College

Sandra Steingraber brings poetry to science and makes them dance. Her lectures open hearts as well as minds. She elucidates. She inspires

- Bioneers

Sandra was terrific last night. Afterwards, people were all abuzz, and I was thanked profusely for suggesting that we invite her. She's truly one of my favorite speakers of all time.

- Cornell University

...how incredibly amazed and moved and impressed we were by Sandra Steingraber--termed 'the event of the year'!

- Washington & Jefferson College