Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor at the nonprofit public health research group U.S. Right to Know, covering public health science and pesticide and food industry product-defense efforts. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Time magazine, Nature Biotechnology, Investor’s Business Daily, The Ecologist, Huffington Post, Expression Africa, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and other outlets. Her 2022 report, Merchants of Poison, reports on the internal corporate documents that reveal key tactics pesticide companies use to dismiss health concerns about their products. Stacy has also reported extensively on efforts to expand corporate-led industrial agriculture in Africa.  

Stacy’s 2007 book, “Not Just a Pretty Face, The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry” (New Society Publishers), won a silver medal for health reporting from the Independent Publishers Association. Her work with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has been featured on Good Morning America and in the Washington Post, 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,” “Pretty Toxic,” “Stink Movie,” and “Not So Pretty” on HBO Max.

Stacy began her career as a newspaper reporter and editor for the Breckenridge Journal, Summit Sentinel, Summit Magazines and publisher of the Summit  Free Press, covering land use, environmental issues and politics in the Colorado High Country. She received a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire. 

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