Contributor: Emily Monosson

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Dr. Emily Monosson is a toxicologist with a B.S. from Union College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. She works part-time as a consultant, writer, teacher and researcher while navigating the ups and downs of balancing a career in science and caring for her two children. She has extensive experience reviewing and synthesizing toxicology and environmental toxicology studies and data on a range of chemicals including pesticides, UV-filters, PCBs, and chemical mixtures. As a research toxicologist, she has had first-hand experience with field studies and laboratory studies designed to evaluate the toxicity of aquatic contaminants, including the impacts of reproductive toxicants. As a writer, her goal is to translate and communicate current issues in human and environmental toxicology for the general public. Occasionally she teaches classess at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, including Environmental Contaminants and Health: Communicating Science to the Public . She is editor and contributor to the recently published Motherhood the Elephant in the Laboratory: women scientists speak out, which addresses challenges faced by scientists who are balancing career and family or who are contemplating parenthood, and is currently working on a book about plastics. 

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