Writing and Media

Featured in Crooked Conversations: When Did Breast Cancer Awareness Become A Business? (11/1/17)

Interview with NPR’s Voice of America, “Why Breast Cancer Action is telling people to “Think Before You Pink.” (10/17/16)

Interview with WBUR’s Here and Now, “One Breast Cancer Advocate On Why She Hates Fundraising Walks.” (5/5/16)

Interview with Inflection Point, “Fighting the Cause of Cancer.” (10/21/15)

Featured in Stink! Movie, discussing Breast Cancer Action’s “Raise a Stink!” campaign © 2015

Featured in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in Samantha Bee’s Field Correspondent Piece on Pink Fracking Drill Bits. (12/3/14)

Op-Ed: The San Francisco Chronicle, Pink-Ribbon Culture is Gaslighting Women. (10/23/19)

Op-Ed: Common Dreams, Put the Brakes on Breast Cancer. (10/25/18)

Op-ed: San Francisco Chronicle, At-home breast cancer test nothing to celebrate. (3/15/18)

“Genetic Testing for All Women? Not a Solution to the Breast Cancer Epidemic.” Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics, edited by Osagie Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky, University of California Press, March 2018.

Op-Ed: Cancer Health Opinions, Right To Try Is False Hope. (3/12/18)

Insight Column: EcoWatch, Stop Irrigating Our Produce With Oil Wastewater. (10/25/16)

Op-Ed: Women’s Media Center, Think Pink? Think Again. (10/18/16)

Op-Ed: The Washington Post, Breast cancer walks are a terrible way to fight breast cancer. (5/4/16)

Insight Column: EcoWatch, Cancer Prevention Needs Attention Too: What if We Weren’t Exposed to 80,000 Toxic Chemicals Every Day? (2/1/16)

Letter to the Editor: The New York Times, The New Mammogram Guidelines. (11/6/15)

Op-Ed: The Guardian, Why are makeup companies able to give breast cancer patients toxic products? (10/17/15)

Op-Ed: The Dallas Morning News, In breast cancer fight, think twice before thinking pink. (10/2/15)

Op-Ed: The Washington Post, Komen is supposed to be curing breast cancer. So why is its pink ribbon on so many carcinogenic products? (10/21/15)

Op-Ed: The Washington Post, Stop routine breast-cancer screenings. Science has shown they don’t save lives. (5/5/15)

Insight Column: EcoWatch, Why Fracking Is a Breast Cancer Issue. (1/27/15)

Op-Ed: The Guardian, The NFL’s breast cancer scam sells bunk science to profit off pink clothes. (10/5/14)

Op-Ed: The Guardian, Breast cancer mammograms: overrated & over-diagnosing women. (4/28/14)

Op-Ed: The San Francisco Chronicle, Ruling helps rein in the Wild West of genetic testing. (3/17/14)

Letter to the Editor: San Francisco Chronicle, Fracking, breast cancer. (8/31/13)

Co-authored Op-Ed: Los Angeles Times, Who should own DNA? All of us. (4/12/13)

“Closing the Wealth Gap Through Self-Employment – Women of Color Achieving the American Dream” SSRN. (July 2008) Co-authored with Elizabeth De Renzy.

“The Race and Gender Wealth Gap,” Race, Poverty & The Environment. (Fall 2008)

“Quality Work Through Self Employment,” Race, Poverty & The Environment. (Spring 2007)

Dozens of additional publications and interviews available upon request, including opinion pieces and essays as a regular writer for EcoWatch Insight, The Huffington Post, and Medium.

Public Lecture Series for Alaska Community Action on Toxics, speaking about environmental health and breast cancer risk to diverse community members throughout Alaska. (Sept. 2019, Sept. 2015, June 2014)

Speaker at the University of Colorado annual Conference on World Affairs. Nine panels included: “Watchdogs, Whistleblowers and Wikileaks”; “When We Rise-Starting a Social Movement”; “Thou Shalt Not Mess With Women’s Reproductive Rights: Fallopians 20:17”; “Future of Medicine: Combating Disease”; and four additional topics. (April 10 – 14, 2017)

Activist in Residence for the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST), University of Colorado, Boulder, leading workshops and discussions with graduate students. (April 2017)

Panelist and Participant at Yale Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency for international researchers, regulators, patients and clinicians about evidentiary standards for approval of medicines: “Ensuring Safety, Efficacy and Access to Medical Products in the Age of Global Deregulation.” (June 2017)

Panelist for American Public Health Association Conference: “Health Justice for Women: Defending reproductive rights and challenging corporate profiteering, racism and disease mongering.” (Oct. 2012)

Public Lecture for Center for Socially Responsible Business at the Lokey Graduate School of Business, Mills College: “The Power of Microenterprise: Empowering Women, Strengthening Communities, Stimulating the Economy.” (April 28, 2009)