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Teresa Heinz
Mrs. Heinz is the chairman of The Heinz
Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. She is recognized
as a premier environmental leader, and she has been a long-time
and tireless educator and advocate on behalf of women’s
health and economic security. In September 2003, she was
presented with the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism
for her work protecting the environment, promoting health
care and education and uplifting
women and children throughout the world. |
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Fran Drescher
Ms. Drescher is a two-time Emmy® and
Golden Globe® nominee. After bravely winning her battle
with uterine cancer, Ms. Drescher wrote her second New
York Times best seller, "Cancer Schmancer,"
for which she received the prestigious National Coalition
for Cancer Survivorship Writer’s Award.
Ms. Drescher successfully lobbied Congress
to pass Johanna’s Law, a bi-partisan bill also known
as The Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act. She
also launched the Cancer Schmancer Movement, a non-profit
organization dedicated to ensuring that all women’s
cancers be diagnosed in STAGE 1, when they are most curable. |
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Leslie Davis
Ms. Davis was appointed president of Magee-Womens
Hospital of UPMC in September 2004. Ms. Davis has an extensive
career in health care spanning over 20 years and has held
prominent positions at medical centers including Mt. Sinai
Medical Center (New York), Thomas Jefferson University,
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
and Tenet Pennsylvania (Graduate Hospital). Ms. Davis holds
a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida
and master’s degree in health and social policy from
Harvard University. |
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Terrence (Terry) J. Collins, PhD
Dr. Collins is a Thomas Lord Professor of
Chemistry and a leading expert on green chemistry. He is
an advocate for greater use of green chemistry to achieve
a sustainable civilization and an inventor of a highly promising
green chemistry technology. |
Steve Curwood
Mr. Curwood is the executive producer and
host of NPR’s Living on Earth. Mr. Curwood
has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience
at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston
and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for
Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education
team. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc.
and lectures in environmental science and public policy
at Harvard University. |
Devra Lee Davis,
PhD, MPH
Dr. Davis heads the Environmental Oncology
Center at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
and is professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health. She has been honored on
a national level for her research and public policy work
and was a National Book Award finalist for “When Smoke
Ran Like Water.” |
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Tyrone Hayes, PhD
Dr. Hayes is well known for his discovery
that changes in Reed frogs’ skin serve as tiny red
flags that can warn when dangerous, even cancer-causing,
chemicals are present in a water source. Reed frogs could
become a low-cost way to test for water pollution in developing
countries. Dr. Hayes holds an undergraduate degree in organismic
and evolutionary biology from Harvard University and a PhD
in integrative biology from the University of California,
Berkeley, where he currently serves as a professor. |
Jane Houlihan
Ms. Houlihan directs research programs at
the Environmental Working Group (EWG). In spearheading work
that exposes health risks from toxins in food, air, water
and consumer products, Ms. Houlihan has propelled EWG to
the forefront of debates on such critical issues as mercury
in seafood, contaminants in drinking water, chemicals in
personal care products, and the human “body burden,”
or what EWG calls "the pollution in people." |
John Peterson
Myers, PhD
Dr. Myers is founder and CEO of Environmental
Health Sciences, an organization engaged in advancing public
understanding of environmental links to health, and senior
advisor to Commonweal and the Jenifer Altman Foundation.
He co-authored “Our Stolen Future, which explores
the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens
fetal development. |
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Herbert Needleman, MD
Dr. Needleman is a leading expert on the
effects of lead poisoning in children. A pediatrician and
child psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center, he is known for groundbreaking studies on the developmental
implications of lead exposure. Dr. Needleman is the founder
of the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, now called
the Alliance for Healthy Homes, a national nonprofit working
to prevent and eliminate home hazards such as lead, mold,
radon and pesticides. |
Frederica P. Perera, DrPH
Dr. Perera is a professor of Environmental
Health Sciences and the director of the Columbia Center
for Children's Environmental Health. She leads a team of
scientists, researchers, community activists, and other
experts in studying the effects of pre- and post-natal exposures
to common urban air pollutants on children's respiratory
health and neurocognitive development. |
Peggy Shepard
Ms. Shepard is the co-founder and executive
director of West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a
platform from which she has helped to locally fight against
environmental hazards and nationally serve as a model for
grassroots activism and coalition building. She is an environmental
crusader and tireless champion for ecological equality on
behalf of inner cities. |
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Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Dr. Steingraber is a renowned ecologist,
author and internationally recognized expert on the environmental
links to cancer and reproductive health. She has taught
biology at Columbia College, Chicago, held visiting fellowships
at the University of Illinois, Radcliffe/Harvard, and Northeastern
University, and served on President Clinton’s National
Action Plan on Breast Cancer. She is the author of “Living
Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer”
and the Environment and the
co-author of “The Spoils
of Famine.” |
Laurie Valeriano
Ms. Valeriano is the policy director for
the Washington
Toxics Coalition (WTC). She directs WTC's numerous policy
campaigns and serves as media coordinator for the organization.
She advocates against persistent pollution, pulp mills,
incinerators, and toxic waste in fertilizer issues. |
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