2017 Siskiyou Prize Winner

Diana Hartel

Diana Hartel writes on public health and ecosystem health issues. She graduated from Columbia University with a doctorate in epidemiology and concentrations in environment-related chronic diseases and infectious diseases. She has held faculty positions at Columbia University and Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and has published widely for biomedical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine. Additionally, she served at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for three years, chairing inter-agency projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She created two non-profit organizations, Bronx Community Works in New York in 1993 and Madrona Arts in Oregon in 2006. Both organizations addressed issues of social and environmental issues. The Oregon-based Madrona Arts primarily employed visual and written arts to raise awareness of ecosystems and efforts to restore them to vibrant health.

Finalists

• Crusoe, Can You Hear Me?: A novel by Deborah Tomkins
• Lost Coast: A young-adult novel by Geneen Marie Haugen

Semi-finalists

• Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal-Consuming Culture by Robert Grillo, published by Vegan Publishers
• Xylotheque: Essays by Yelizaveta Renfro, published by University of Mexico Press
• Junk Raft: An ocean voyage and rising tide of activism to fight plastic pollution by Marcus Eriksen, published by Beacon Press