Stacy Malkan is co-founder and managing editor at U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit newsroom and public health research group.  She covers emerging public health science, trends in science, and industry lobbying and disinformation tactics. Her work has been widely published including in the New York Times, Time magazine, Nature Biotechnology, The Ecologist, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Her 2022 Merchants of Poison report is based on internal Monsanto documents that reveal tactics the company used to manipulate science and mislead regulators about glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. She has also reported extensively on efforts to expand corporate-led industrial agriculture in Africa.  

Stacy’s award-winning book, “Not Just a Pretty Face, The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry” (New Society Publishers, 2007) was among the first to expose the wide array of toxic and cancer-linked chemicals in everyday personal care products. 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 was a 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 Summit County, Colorado. She lives in California with her son. 

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