Carolyn Raffensperger, M.A., J.D., is the founding executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, a national consortium of environmental groups dedicated to the use of science to protect the environment and public health.

She is the co-editor of Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle, and also writes the Science for Lawyers column for the Environmental Law Institute’s journal Environmental Forum.

Introduced by Michael Pollan, Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism.