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. She has specialty knowledge regarding the rise of biotech crop technology and the associated rise in pervasive pesticide use in our farming and food production system. Gillam has won several industry awards for her work and been recognized as a leading global expert on corruption in the agricultural chemical industry. Her first book “Whitewash- The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science” was released in October 2017 and won the coveted Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists as well as two other literary awards.
Carey’s second book, a legal thriller titled “The Monsanto Papers – Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice, is due for release March 2, 2021.
Gillam has been asked to speak all over the world about food and agricultural matters, including before the European Parliament in Brussels, the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, and to public officials, organizations and conferences in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, France and The Netherlands. She has also been an invited lecturer to several universities, including Emory University, Berkeley Law School, Washington University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the University of Iowa, the Cambridge Forum in Harvard Square, and others.
She has served as a consultant on, and participant in, several documentary T.V. and film pieces, including the award-winning Poisoning Paradise documentary released in June 2019 by actor Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Brosnan.
Gillam can speak to issues of food safety and security, environmental health, agricultural issues, corporate corruption of regulatory policies, as well matters about journalism, fake news, corporate pressure on media and more.
She currently works as a reporter and data researcher for the public health research group U.S. Right to Know.
* Society of Environmental Journalists – Freedom of Information Task Force member
* North American Agricultural Journalists
* Research Director for S. Right to Know, an investigative group focused on public health issues
* Board Member, Justice Pesticides
* Consultant and contract editor
* Documentary film consultant
* The Guardian contributor
* Huffington Post contributor
* 17 years experience with Reuters
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