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Carolyn Raffensperger, M.A., J.D.
Executive Director

Carolyn is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. She has an M.A. in Archaeology and a J.D.

While working as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest of the U.S., she was enchanted by the beauty of the landscape and horrified at the environmental threats posed by dams, mining and toxic waste disposal. She left archaeology to work for the Sierra Club in Illinois. The desire to protect the rivers, prairie and desert led her to law school. Her graduate school training in archaeology and her law school education provide the tools Carolyn needs to serve her clients—the future generations of all species.

Carolyn co-convened the 1998 Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle and the 2012, 2014 and 2016 Women’s Congresses for Future Generations.

Carolyn is co-editor of Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy published by M.I.T. Press (2006) and Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle, published by Island Press (1999).