Elena Conis (’07), a science writer and historian, is the author of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, and elsewhere. Her Los Angeles Times column “Nutrition Lab” won the Institute of Food Technologists Media Award in 2011. Elena lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches in the history department at Emory University. Her second book, How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT was released in 2022.