Breast Cancer Action

Breast Cancer Action is a grassroots organization exposing the role of corporations in cancer and a member of the Business Ethics Network.

Corporations Targeted By BCA
In an email to John Stauber on May 1, 2008, these corporations were identified as as "targeted in our Think Before You Pink Campaign -- www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org
 * BMW
 * Ford
 * Mercedes
 * Avon
 * Revlon
 * Estee Lauder
 * Mary Kay
 * General Mills (makers of Yoplait)

Directors
Accessed July 2008:


 * Diane Carr
 * Elaine Costello
 * Tori Freeman, Treasurer
 * Dorothy A. Geoghegan, Vice President
 * JoAnn Loulan
 * Bhavna Shamasunder, Secretary
 * Belle Shayer, Emeritus
 * Lee Ann Slinkard
 * Jane Sprague Zones
 * Adrienne Torf
 * Denise Wells, President

National Advisory Board
Accessed July 2008:


 * Rita Arditti - Women’s Community Cancer Project, Cambridge, MA
 * Martha Arguello - Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles, CA
 * Sandy Blank - Florida Breast Cancer Resource Network, Delray Beach, FL
 * Vernal Branch - Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation, Richmond, VA
 * Karen Jackson - Sisters Network, Inc., Houston, TX
 * Silvia Henriquez - National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, New York, NY
 * Holly Mitchell - Crystal Stairs, Los Angeles, CA
 * Judy Norsigian - Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston, MA
 * Loretta Ross - SisterSong, Atlanta, GA
 * Eveline Shen - Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Oakland, CA
 * Deborah Shields - Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, Quincy, MA
 * Barbra Wiener - Women’s Cancer Resource Center, Minneapolis, MN

Scientific Advisory Board
Accessed July 2008:


 * Lisa Bailey - Breast Surgeon, Alta Bates Medical Group
 * Leslie Bernstein - City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director of the Department of Cancer Etiology, Dean for Faculty Development
 * Julia Brody - Executive Director, Silent Spring Institute
 * Wendel Brunner - Director of Public Health, Contra Costa County
 * Beverly Burns - Medical Director, Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic, Integrative Medical Specialist, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
 * Beth Crawford - Genetics Counselor, UCSF/Mt. Zion Medical Center
 * Alvin Eisner - Neurological Sciences Institute and Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
 * Philip S. Gardiner - Tobacco Related Disease Research, University of California
 * William H. Goodson III - Breast Surgeon and Senior Clinical Research Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
 * Sandra R. Hernandez - Chief Executive Officer, the San Francisco Foundation
 * Stefanie Jeffrey - Breast Surgeon, Stanford University Medical Center
 * Gregory Keaton - Freelance Physicist
 * Mary Ellen Mahoney - Breast Surgeon and Activist
 * Ralph Moss - Science Writer and Director of the Moss Reports
 * Rachel Morello-Frosch - Associate Professor, Community Health & Human Development, University of California, Berkeley
 * Mark Rounsaville - Radiation Oncologist, California Pacific Medical Center
 * Sally Savitz - Co-founder, Charlotte Maxwell Complimentary Clinic
 * Carol Somkin - Sociologist, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute
 * Sandra Steingraber - Ecologist/Poet
 * Joe Thornton - Center for Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon
 * Mary S. Wolff - Professor, Division of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Contact Information

 * Barbara A. Brenner, Executive Director
 * Breast Cancer Action
 * 55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 323
 * San Francisco, CA 94105
 * Toll Free: 877-2STOPBC (877-278-6722)
 * Local: 415-243-9301
 * Fax: 415-243-3996

Websites

 * www.bcaction.org
 * www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund - major supporter in 2007