Timothy Fields—Building networks for success.

In 1997, Mitchell brought his concerns to EPA, and spoke with Cynthia Purifoy, the Environmental Justice Coordinator of the EPA Region 4 office in Atlanta. I This essay is part of a series of essays that are based on interviews conducted for this special issue with people who practice risk communication related to human or natural hazards as part of their professions i . The two-day meeting Tim Fields moderated was held in 1996 to discuss threats of dioxin and inadequacy of prior EPA dioxin removal efforts. After leaving EPA in 2001, Timothy Fields joined the consulting firm MDB as a facilitator with a goal of providing assistance to communities. [Extracted from the article]