14 Facts About Sandra Steingraber

Sandra Steingraber was born on 1959 and is an American biologist, author, and cancer survivor.

Sandra Steingraber grew up and spent most of her childhood in Tazewell County, Illinois.

Sandra Steingraber's mother was a microbiologist and her father was a community college professor.

Sandra Steingraber's parents inculcated in her an interest in sustainable development and organic agriculture from a young age.

Sandra Steingraber worked for several years as a field researcher, eventually earning her doctorate in biology from the University of Michigan.

Sandra Steingraber holds a master's degree in English from Illinois State University.

Sandra Steingraber has been on faculty at Cornell University, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York.

Sandra Steingraber criticizes the imbalance between funding devoted to studies of genetic predisposition to cancer versus studies of environmental contributions.

Sandra Steingraber's work Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, reflects the ideals that Rachel Carson expressed in her seminal book, Silent Spring.

Sandra Steingraber stresses issues such as how chemical pesticides find their way into human bodies.

Sandra Steingraber served 10 days in the Chemung County jail in the city of Elmira before her release.

On October 29,2014, while participating in the civil disobedience campaign, called We Are Seneca Lake, Sandra Steingraber was arrested again with nine other protestors at the gates of Crestwood Midstream for trespassing and blocking a chemical truck, which resulted in an additional charge of disorderly conduct.

Sandra Steingraber served 8-days in the Chemung County jail and was released.

In July 2019, Sandra Steingraber announced in an essay that she was gay, timing her announcement to coincide with LGBT STEM day.