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The NPR story from July (mentioning Lead Safe Mama, LLC) was nationally syndicated today — 8/1! Here’s the link.

The NPR story from July (mentioning Lead Safe Mama, LLC) was nationally syndicated today — 8/1! Here’s the link.

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  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…

Lead Safe Mama, LLC was mentioned in an NPR story today! [July 25, 2022!]

Lead Safe Mama, LLC was mentioned in an NPR story today! [July 25, 2022!]

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Monday – July 25, 2022  Over the past 6 months or so  – members of the Lead Safe Mama team (including volunteer mamas from our community sharing their stories) have been working closely with NPR journalists (and other journalists!) around the country to help increase the public understanding of the depth and breadth of the…

Nov. 8, 2017: The time my work went viral & was featured on CBS This Morning for my discovery of Lead in fidget spinners.

Nov. 8, 2017: The time my work went viral & was featured on CBS This Morning for my discovery of Lead in fidget spinners.

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Originally published: November 10, 2017 Scroll down for link to video on CBS This Morning Yesterday was a rollercoaster…each time my work goes viral, it presents a new swirl of chaos and more interviews to do (in 20 hours from 11/8 to 11/9 alone: four interviews, two radio and two television – both national and…

Thank you for the thank you, Reuters (Josh)!

Thank you for the thank you, Reuters (Josh)!

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On December 19th I got the nicest surprise in my inbox – a nice Thank You note from Josh Schneyer at Reuters for helping Reuters with their reporting this year. I’ve invested a lot of time collaborating with journalists over the years—responding to requests for information and helping journalists with their research for articles on…