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. The views expressed by the hosts of Adoptees On or any guests are their own and do not represent the opinions of any organization or other person unless otherwise stated.Ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber is an internationally-recognized authority on environmental links to cancer and human health. Please seek out professionals in those fields if you need those services. Nothing stated on it, either by its hosts or any guests, is to be construed as psychological, medical or legal advice. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Support Adoptees On One-Time Donation | Monthly | Secret Facebook GroupĬonnect Occasional Newsletter | Send a Note Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube Adoptees On: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook.Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook.Living Downstream - documentary and Unfractured - documentary.Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis.Girls: What We Know, what We Need to Know Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood.Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.Always Knew I Was Adopted Just Found Out I’m Gay By Sandra Steingraber.We’ve talked before about the upstream issues causing adoption to continue, but have you ever thought of how the climate crisis may be impacting family separation? Dr. As a gay woman who came out later in life, Sandra now helps facilitate a Queer Adoptee support group and we talk about the intersections and conflicts she sees between the LGBTQ community and the adoptee rights community. Sandra shares some of her personal story with us, and then the importance of knowing the interactions of both our biology and our adoptive environments on our health. Sandra Steingraber, a public health biologist and climate crisis expert.
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