Ecologist, author and cancer survivor

Steingraber is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. In this very passionate and personal conversation Steingraber’s focus is on her important new book Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed 1997 book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was a topic of discussion in one of our earlier interviews. She was one of the first to present cancer as a human rights issue.