Stacy Malkan

Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor of U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group. She reports on public health science and pesticide and food industry front groups and product defense efforts. Stacy is author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (New Society Publishers, 2007), and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a national coalition of researchers and health groups that exposed hazardous chemicals in personal care products and pressured companies to remove carcinogens from baby products. In 2012, she was media director for Proposition 37, a statewide ballot initiative for labeling of genetically engineered food in California. She is the former communications director of Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition of groups working to reduce pollution in the health care industry. Stacy’s work has been featured in Time magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, Nature Biotechnology, Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. She has appeared in several documentary films including The Human Experiment produced by Sean Penn, Pink Skies, Stink Movie, and Not So Pretty now airing on HBO Max.

Contact Stacy: stacy@usrtk.org
Follow Stacy on Twitter: @StacyMalkan

Select articles: 

Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide, report by Stacy Malkan with Kendra Klein, PhD, and Anna Lappé (December 2022)

Series of articles tracking Bill Gates Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation’s agricultural interventions in Africa and political influence over global food systems.

Tracking the pesticide industry propaganda network: Series of fact sheets on key players in the pesticide and food industries’ product defense efforts

Why did the National Honey Board hire a PR firm that works for the pesticide industry? with Saheli Khastagir, U.S. Right to Know (8.8.23) and interview with Stacy on KPFA

Op-ed: What the pesticide industry doesn’t want you to know: Confronting pesticide industry science denialism, with Kendra Klein, PhD, and Anna Lappé, Environmental Health News (12.12.22)

Groups call for stop to AGRA funding as hunger crisis worsens in Africa, Expression Africa (9.25.21)

Gates ‘failing’ green revolution in Africa, The Ecologist (8.14.22)

The future of food requires transparency and integrity, with Carey Gillam, Investor’s Business Daily (7.24.18)

Secret documents expose Monsanto’s war on cancer scientists, TruthOut (7.16.18)

Impossible Burger fails to inspire trust in GMO industry, EcoWatch (7.6.18)

The New (Sneaky) GMO 2.0 Rush: What could go wrong, what you should know, CommonGround Magazine (3.18)

The Politics of Infertility and Cancer. HuffPost (11.28.17)

Having trouble getting pregnant? Science suggests: eat organic and regulate the pesticide industry, HuffPost (11.20.17)

Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage? Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (7.24.17)

Monsanto Fingerprints Found All Over Attack on Organic Food, HuffPost (6.16)

Food Evolution GMO Film Serves Up Chemical Industry Agenda, HuffPost (6.16)

Neil deGrasse Tyson Fans Deserve More than Twisted Tale on GMOs, EcoWatch (6.16)

Johnson & Johnson is Just the Tip of the Toxic Iceberg, Time magazine (3.16)

Bill Gates is on a mission to sell GMOs to Africa, but he’s not telling the whole truth, Alternate (3.16)

Why is Cornell University Hosting a GMO Propaganda Campaign?, The Ecologist (1.16)

Standing up for transparency, Nature Biotechnology (1.16)

Why we made the Story of Cosmetics, with Annie Leonard, HuffPost (2011)

Spinning Food: How food industry front groups and covert communications are shaping the story of food , by Kari Hamerschlag, Anna Lappé and Stacy Malkan (2015 report)