Marian Feinberg
Marian Feinberg worked as a medical technologist and union health and safety chair for 20 years. During that time and since, she has been working in the South Bronx on issues of environmental health and justice for the last 18 years. She was a founder of the South Bronx Clean Air Coalition, which waged a successful and hard-fought battle to close a regional medical waste incinerator in the Mott Haven-Port Morris neighborhood and to put the issue of South Bronx environmental racism on the map. She was a Kellogg Foundation Bronx Urban Health Fellow from 1996-1998.
She coordinates environmental health programs at For A Better Bronx. She works on several National Institute of Environmental Health-funded research projects in collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center and Lehman College and is on the board of advisors of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. She recently finished a term as a steering committee member of the New York City Asthma Partnership, and has done much active work in the Bronx educating, organizing, and advocating around asthma-safe schools, homes and an end to air pollution and toxic chemicals. She has authored several publications and health and the environment.
She is an active participant in the Breast Cancer Working Group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE). She has led numerous workshops on environmental and safe cosmetics issues for SHARE, the NYC Breast and Ovarian Cancer peer support organization, Latina SHARE and other cancer organizations. She is a founder of the FABB-based Wheel of Hope Wellness Project developing complementary healing services, knowledge and empowerment for low-income women with cancer.