Water, Fracking, and Human Health: Eliza Griswold at TEDxColumbiaSIPA

ELIZA GRISWOLD is an author and poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, among others. She is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation. She reports on religion, conflict and human rights. Her first book of poems, Wideawake Field, was published in 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux and The Tenth Parallel, an examination of Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia was released in the fall of 2010. She is currently at work on a collection of poems of Afghan women and a detailed examination of the effects of hydraulic fracturing on our nation’s energy supply, health, and infrastructure.

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