Canaries in a Coal Mine: "Wake up and smell the chemicals!" featuring Dr. Liza Grandia

Secret Lives of the Disabled

Liza Grandia, PhD, is a Professor & Chair in the Dept of Native American Studies @ University of California, Davis, where she teaches both doctoral students and undergrads in an interdisciplinary program with a hemispheric focus on Indigenous peoples of the Americas. An alum of Yale University, with a doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, Professor Grandia leads a wide ranging academic career that has included A National Science Fdtn grant, seven years of fieldwork in Guatemala, new book release: Kernels of Resistance: Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power (pub 11.24), and a manuscript-in-progress: Charismatic Chemicals.
The topic of this episode pertains to this recent work, and addresses the disabling effects of human made toxics that exist unregulated in our indoor environments and in common products that cause extreme reactivity leading to physical disability.