Swati Rayasam

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AFFILIATION: EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights

TITLE: Environmental Protection Specialist

LOCATION: California

LANGUAGE: English

EXPERTISE AREA: Asian/Asian-American Communities, Climate Change, DEIJ, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism, Pollution, Water

ABOUT THE EXPERT:

Swati Rayasam, MSc is a public health scientist and grassroots organizer working in service to protect the health of communities and advance their needs. In addition to grassroots organizing work in the Bay Area, she works at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights in Policy Analysis. She previously led the UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)’s work to ensure EPA’s implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act protects the health of communities disproportionately impacted by toxic chemical pollution such as BIPOC, low-income populations, incarcerated populations, and people with disabilities. She has expertise in federal and international policy, exposure science, community-guided science, science translation/communication, toxics, infectious disease, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). She earned her MSc in Global Health and the Environment from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health and her BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

CONTACT:

Contact Swati Rayasam HERE.