Penelope Jagessar Chaffer - April Inspirational Woman

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2. Personally, I'd never juxtapose the words TOXIC and BABY, it makes me cringe and inhibits sharing.

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Frank Luntz would understand, I think.

On the image front, she glamorously vamps it up for the Kickstarter video straight out of Vogue, Harpers Bazaar or the BAFTA's. Ok, lovely, but here she is wearing a 'MOM'S CLEAN AIR FORCE' red t-shirt (far right) in a photo tweeted by the EPA Administrator the day of the Senate's all night session on the climate crisis. And certainly the TEDTalk below adds another serious element.

https://twitter.com/GinaEPA/status/443078532319563776

Kids & @CleanAirMoms stopped by today to deliver comments on the new power plant rule. We must #ActOnClimate for them http://pic.twitter.com/hmkE51T4N1

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http://www.ted.com/talks/tyrone_hayes_penelope_jagessar_chaffer_the_toxic_baby.html

Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby
FILMED DEC 2010 • POSTED FEB 2012 • TEDWomen 2010

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect on frog development.) Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell their story.

Tyrone Hayes studies frogs and amphibians -- and the effects on their bodies of common farming chemicals. Full bio »

Penelope Jagessar Chaffer made the film "Toxic Baby," exploring environmental toxins through interviews and surreal imagery. Full bio »

She's made a brilliant film about the research of 18 scientists on the widespread harm to human development from toxic synthetic substances and is attempting to raise funds to turn it into an app which can be updated and will contain crowd-sourced maps. WOW!

She's getting the stiff arm from DU's science people. That's ironic since I learned about her only recently from a hugely popular DU thread on scientist Tyrone Hayes (included in her film). What's up with that? Sexism?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024479039 (118 replies, 8100 views, 215 DU recs)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112763325
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122826713