Carey Gillam

About

Longtime investigative journalist Carey Gillam has spent more than 25 years researching and reporting on how our food is produced – 17 of those years with the international news agency Reuters. Some refer to her as a modern-day Rachel Carson because of her work exposing decades of corporate secrets and deceptive tactics by powerful pesticide companies, including the global giant Monsanto Co. Her book Whitewash – The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science, and her ongoing reporting and writing, have led her to become recognized as an international expert on corporate control of agriculture and the health and environmental impacts of a pesticide-dependent food system. Gillam’s book won the 2018 Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Gold Medal for Outstanding work from the Independent Book Publishers, and the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. Corporate powers have attempted to silence and discredit Gillam, but the evidence she has uncovered is so powerful that she was asked to testify as an expert witness before the European Parliament in 2017 about her findings. She additionally was an invited speaker at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg, France in 2019, and has been a keynote and/or panel speaker at events throughout North America, Australia, The Netherlands, Brussels, and France. Gillam, who lives in the farm state of Kansas, now works as Managing Editor for The New Lede, an environmental journalism outlet, and reports and writes for The Guardian. Her second book, The Monsanto Papers - Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption and One Man's Search of Justice, was released in 2021. www.careygillam.com