Dr. Heidi Hutner is a scholar, writer, filmmaker, and teacher of ecofeminism, environmental justice,
environmental humanities, nuclear studies, literature, and film. She is the winner
of Sierra Club Long Island's 2015 award. Hutner chaired the Sustainability Studies
Program for six years and was Associate Dean in the School of Marine, Atmospheric
Science, and Sustainability. Hutner publishes widely as a writer and journalist on
nuclear, environmental, environmental justice, and gender issues. She regularly gives
public and keynote talks at universities and conferences on environmental studies
and ecofeminism. As director, writer, and producer, Hutner just completed the 75-minute
documentary film, RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island. RADIOACTIVE is sponsored by Women Make Movies, and produced by film luminaries such as Judith Helfand
and Richard Saperstein. RADIOACTIVE is headed to the film festival circuit. Hutner's current book project, RADIOACTIVE: Women's Voices and Nuclear Disasters, will accompany the film and forms the basis of the documentary project. Her books,
book chapters, and essays have been published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University
Press, University of Virginia Press, Palgrave Press, Rowman and Littlefield Press,
Broadview Press, among others. As a journalist, she writes for the New York Times DOT EARTH, Ms. Magazine, Public Radio International, Longreads, AEON, DAME, Spirituality and Health, Mom's Clean Air Force, Yes!, Tikkun, and more. Hutner recently appeared on the NBC News Think episode, “Clean Water is a Human Right” and gave the popular Tedx: "Eco-Grief and Ecofeminism." She produces the web video show, Coffee with Hx2, in which she interviews world experts, Nobel Peace Prize winners, McArthur Genius
Fellows, and other experts on sustainability and environmental issues. Hutner was
the associate producer of the off-Broadway climate-change musical, Endangered.
For more about Heidi Hutner (and full list of her projects/publications), see her
website: HeidiHutner.com and her film website: RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island.