Toxic Fashion and Your Health with Author and Journalist, Alden Wicker

Description: Alden Wicker is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of "To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back" (Putnam). She splits her time between managing her internationally recognized platform on safe and sustainable fashion, EcoCult.com and contributing to publications such as The New York Times, Vox, Wired, Vogue,and more. She’s made expert appearances on NPR’s Fresh Air, the BBC, and Al Jazeera to speak on consumer sustainability and the fashion system’s effect on people and the planet

Wicker will be sharing findings from her new book "To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion is Making Us Sick and How We Can Fight Back". "To Dye For" reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers’ concerns under the rug for more than 150 years and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from fossil fuels are so deeply intertwined with the rise of autoimmune disease, infertility, asthma, eczema and more.

Please direct questions to madeline.dolgin@asu.edu.