Lariah Edwards

Director of Toxicology, EWG Verified®
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Lariah Edwards is an environmental health scientist committed to advancing solutions for consumers to find safer consumer products. She helps brands meet EWG Verified® standards and ensures those standards are science-based. 

Before joining EWG, she was a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, leading studies on chemicals in personal care products and their disproportionate impacts on women of color. Her work has informed public education, environmental health policy and efforts to advance safer products. She also worked at the Environmental Defense Fund supporting its chemical policy work.

Edwards holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a Ph.D. in environmental health from Boston University School of Public Health. In her free time, she enjoys reading fiction books, baking, and trying new coffee shops.