Moving Forward After Flint
By Katie L. Burke
A conversation with Siddhartha Roy, who served as the communications director for the Flint Water Study.
July 18, 2016
From The Staff Chemistry Ethics Human Ecology
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In this podcast, digital features editor Katie L. Burke speaks with Siddhartha Roy about his outlook after helping uncover the water-contamination problems in Flint, Michigan.
A graduate student at Virginia Tech in Marc Edwards’s lab, Roy served as the communications director on the seminal Flint Water Study. In that role, he interacted with residents in Flint, talking with them about the results of the lab tests that showed dangerous levels of lead in their drinking water. (To read an edited and transcribed version of this interview, go here.)
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