Contested Illnesses Research Group
Brown University , Providence RI

Rebecca Tillson is a senior concentrating in International Relations, with a focus on the Global Environment. She joined the CIRG in the Fall of 2007. She has taken courses on environmental justice, environmental health, national and international environmental policy as well as a variety of more science focused courses. She has worked as a research assistant for Professor Phil Brown in the Superfund Basic Research Program Community Outreach Core since the summer of 2006. This work has been centered one of the Outreach Core's community partners, a group called ENACT, from Tiverton, RI. She will graduate in December of 2007 and hopes to contine work of this sort in the future.