chemical security, toxics in consumer products, food safety
Background
Elizabeth Hitchcock is Public Health Advocate for U.S. PIRG and the
U.S. PIRG Education Fund. Ms. Hitchcock researches and conducts
advocacy campaigns on such issues as chemical security, toxics in
consumer products and food safety. Prior to becoming public health
advocate, she served for eleven years as the Communications Director
for U.S. PIRG, working with the program and field staffs of the State
PIRGs to release reports to the national and local media on such issues
as product safety, enforcement of the Clean Water Act, toxic chemical
accidents, preservation, safe energy alternatives and air pollution.
Prior to joining the U.S. PIRG staff in 1990, she worked on a number of
environmental campaigns with PIRGs in Massachusetts, New Jersey,
California, and Florida.
She
has served for several years on the board of Earth Share, has been
chair of their national board since 2006. She is a 1982 graduate of
Mount Holyoke College.
