Category: Carey Gillam

Video Link for Gillam Presentation

4/11/2022

The presentation by Carrie Gillam at the D5 April meeting was informative. You can watch the edited version on You Tube.
https://youtu.be/2n9Zn-0mfFI

D5 Hosts Award Winning Author Carey Gillam

4/2/2022

Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author with more than 30 years of experience covering food and agricultural policies and practices, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service (1998-2015). She has specialty knowledge about the health and environmental impacts of pervasive pesticide use and industrial agriculture and has won several industry awards for her work.
She has two books.

Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science
The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption and One Man’s Search for Justice.

Carey is a KAC D2 member.
D5 meets Saturday, April 9 at 1:30. Attend on Zoom or in person at 2801 W 15th St N, Wichita, KS.
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D5 Zoom Link April 9 @ 1:30

Award Winning Writer to Present at D5 April 9 Meeting

3/23/2022

Carey Gillam (D2) is a veteran investigative journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering corporate news, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service (1998-2015). She is the author of “Whitewash- The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science,” an expose of corporate corruption in agriculture. The book won the coveted Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2018. Her second book, a narrative legal thriller titled The Monsanto Papers, was released March 2. 2021.
She also has contributed chapters for a text book about environmental journalism and a book about pesticide use in Africa.
Gillam testified as an invited expert before the European Parliament in 2017 about her research, and was a featured speaker at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France in 2019. She also has been a keynote and/or panel speaker at events and universities throughout North America, Australia, The Netherlands, Brussels, and France.
Gillam writes regularly for The Guardian. Her work has additionally published in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Time, and other outlets. She also spent six years (2016-2021) working as researcher for the nonprofit investigative group US Right to Know.
Gillam is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists and the North American Agricultural Journalists.
D5 meets Saturday, April 9 at 1:30. We meet on Zoom and in person at 2801 W 15th St N, Wichita, KS.
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April 9 at 1:30: Carey Gillam Presentation

Welcome, New Member Carey Gillam

9/28/2021

Carey sent her bio as her introduction. She's in District 2, from Overland Park. Welcome, Carey!

Carey Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering corporate news, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service. At Reuters, she specialized in covering industrial agriculture, including the products and practices of the world’s largest agrochemical companies and the related health and environmental impacts. Gillam joined the non-profit research group US Right to Know in 2016 where she researches and writes about pesticide issues. In addition to her work a research director for US Right to Know, Gillam works as a contributing writer for The Guardian and freelances for other publications. She is also a member of the Freedom of Information Task Force within the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Gillam’s ongoing reporting and writing have led her to become recognized as an international expert on corporate agriculture and the health and environmental impacts of a pesticide-dependent food system. She is the author of “Whitewash- The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science,” an expose of corporate corruption in agriculture. The book won the coveted Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2018 as well as two other literary awards.

Her second book, a narrative legal thriller titled The Monsanto Papers, was released March 2. 2021. The book is described by one reviewer as blending “science and human tragedy with courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham.” Another said “Gillam has "written what I can only describe as a blockbuster, right up there with page-turning thrillers by John Grisham.”

Carey's website: CareyGillam.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareyGillamAuthor
Twitter: @careygillam

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New D2 Member Book Optioned for Television and Film Projects

9/10/2021

After her first book won the coveted Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, former Reuters journalist and Kansas native Carey Gillam has released her second book, The Monsanto Papers- Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption and One Man's Search for Justice (Island Press, 2021). The nonfiction book has been optioned for television and film projects. Contact Carey at carey@careygillam.com

Congratulations, Carey! And welcome to Kansas Authors Club!

Video Link for Gillam Presentation

D5 Hosts Award Winning Author Carey Gillam

Award Winning Writer to Present at D5 April 9 Meeting

Welcome, New Member Carey Gillam

New D2 Member Book Optioned for Television and Film Projects

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