I'm a staff scientist at the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, a global nonprofit organization based in Eugene, Oregon. At ELAW, I provide advice and assistance to environmental defenders around the world.

I own and run The Bear & Bee Bookshop, a small independent shop in North Adams, Massachusetts that carries used and new books. While we carry a little of everything, we have special interest in queer and feminist books, health and wellness, nature, gardening, science fiction, and progressive politics.

I am heavily involved in the city life of North Adams, Massachusetts’ smallest city, nestled in the valley of the Hoosic River, at the northern edge of the Berkshire Hills and overshadowed by Mount Greylock, on the unceded land of the Muh·he·con·ne·ok people known today as the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans.

I have worked extensively on the European Union’s REACH chemicals policy, particularly through collaborations and consulting with the European Environmental Bureau, CHEM Trust, the Health and Environment Alliance, and other EU- and US-based organizations.

I love teaching, and have extensive experience. In the early 2010s, I held an assistant professorship (and chaired the Department of Environmental Studies) at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA). I've also taught at the Boston University School of Public Health, the Brown University School of Public Health, the Brown University Department of Environmental Studies (now part of IBES), Northeastern University, Boston University’s Sargent College, and Boston College.

As a postdoc, I worked for a couple of years on the C8 Science Panel study of PFAS pollution from the DuPont Washington Works facility in Parkersburg, WV.

I was an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow hosted within EPA’s Design for the Environment program during 2012-13.

In 2019-20, I lived in Dhaka, Bangladesh and collaborated with Environment and Social Development Organization on local pollution issues.

In 2020, I took a long bike ride through India.

I used to be an astronomer.

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