Sarah Vogel is the Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).  She  leads a team of scientists, attorneys and policy experts to protect health by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and air pollution. Recent achievements of the program include: bipartisan passage of major reforms to the nation’s chemical safety law in 2016.  She has authored  the book ” Is It Safe: BPA and the Struggle to Define the Risks of Chemicals”.  which narrates episodes of political and scientific conflict over what makes a chemical safe.