Sandra Steingraber (born 1959) is an American biologist, author, and cancer survivor in the tradition of Rachel Carson. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems and environmental links to cancer. Dr. Sandra Steingraber has been a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies since 2003. In addition to being a very successful author (Living Downstream) and a contributor to book chapters in anthologized collections, a peer-reviewed monograph, a chapbook, eight magazine articles and essays – including two national cover stories - , several op-ed essays, and book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, she has also served as a contributing editor and columnist to the national environmental magazine Orion, and as a biologist with expertise in environmental causes of cancer, she has for the past two years served on the steering committee of the California Breast Cancer Research Program (the world’s 4^th largest funder of breast cancer research). To that end, Sandra has served as contributing author and editor of Identifying Gaps in Breast Cancer Research: Addressing Disparities and the Roles of the Physical and Social Environment (a 500-page, peer-reviewed document. As a result of Dr. Steingraber’s ongoing work on breast cancer, she received the Breast Cancer Fund’s Hero Award in 2006 - Extracted from - http://www.ithaca.edu/diis/community/sandrasteingraber/