Deep Waters (Image above) September 8, 2023 – 10:58 p.m. Photograph of the Milky Way from Northern California (Dunsmuir). A view into the dangerous and wonderful ocean of space. Avi Rubin’s College Applications Winter 2023/2024 (Additional Materials for Fall 2024 Admission Applications) Section #1) Photography – photos below Cosmic The In-between Microcosmic Section #2) Digital…
Avi Rubin is a 14 year old kid activist. He was Lead poisoned as an infant (at 7 months old) and has a permanent brain injury as a result of his poisoning – with a visual memory in the 4th percentile. To accommodate his disabilities he has learned to use tools like “text to speech” to capture…
Originally published April 15, 2018 Avi is now 13 years old. He’ll be 13-1/2 in July. He was just seven months old when he was acutely lead poisoned. The photos below are of Avi’s right foot this week. My readers are aware that I deal with the impacts of childhood lead poisoning every day. I…
My son Avi is 12-1/2 years old (he’ll be 13 in January actually), he just started 7th grade. He’s the boy in blue at the middle of this picture taken earlier this month! You can click the image to see it full size if you like! Avi was acutely lead poisoned when he was just…
5/13/2017 This is Avi’s “Mother’s Day” note for me today! He wrote it in his yoga class yesterday morning! For those of you without a very young child [or a brain-injured 12-year-old] in your life, an English “translation” follows. I share this with you for 1,000,001 reasons, but mostly to show you where he is with writing,…
For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…
![My son Avi’s first ever Blood Lead Level (BLL) Test, from November 4, 2005 (when he was just 9 months [+ 7 days] old).](https://tamararubin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/avipic.png)
Posted: January 6, 2017 Below is a post originally written and shared in March of 2015. It’s a post I have shared often so I am re-sharing now, so those who are new to my page and my work have context for my story as well as the benefit of the information provided. Thanks for…
Originally written May 24, 2015 Updated (just the images!) December 2, 2019 Today is my birthday; I’m 57 years old. I mention this not to solicit “Happy Birthday” e-mails – but to illustrate there is not a single day that goes by in our life where Lead poisoning and its impacts are not omnipresent and…
Originally Posted: January 29, 2015 David “Avi” Benjamin Rubin is ten years old today.These have been the most challenging ten years of my life. In August 2005 Avi was just seven-months old when he was poisoned by the work of painting contractor who did not use lead-safe work practices in preparing the exterior of…