Wilma Subra
* tireless advocate for communities
* runs Subra Company, a chemistry lab and environmental consulting firm
* technical advisor for the Louisiana Environmental Action Network

Wilma Subra will speak about her experiences working with cancer clusters communities in Louisiana.

Biography:
Wilma Subra is an American environmental scientist.
She graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in microbiology, chemistry and computer sciences. She worked for the Gulf South Research Institute (GSRI). She served as vice-chair of the EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award. She was in the 2010 documentary Gasland.

For more information:

“Conversations with Advocates of Fair Growth” Commonweal

“Interview with CHE Partner, Wilma Subra”, Collaborative on Health and the Environment

“A Letter from Wilma Subra to New York State: Fracking vs. Water”, October 1, 2009

“Wilma Subra Notes from the Hurricane Impacted area”, Global Community Network, September 16, 2005

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