Alison Johnson, BA., M.A., is a summa cum laude graduate of Carleton College and studied mathematics at the Sorbonne on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Johnson has produced and directed documentaries titled Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: How Chemical Exposures May Be Affecting Your Health, Gulf War Syndrome: Aftermath of a Toxic Battlefield, and The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Health Disaster. She has also edited a book titled Casualties of Progress: Personal Histories from the Chemically Sensitive and has written a book titled Gulf War Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War. She is currently finishing a book on multiple chemical sensitivity that will contain chapters on the health problems affecting the workers who helped clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the soldiers who developed Gulf War Syndrome in the 1991 war, and New Yorkers exposed to the toxins released by the World Trade Center collapse and fires.

Alison Johnson organized a press conference on Capitol Hill in February 2001 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War. The participants included veterans, Ross Perot, and Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Dick Durbin. She has given copies of her two books and her Gulf War Syndrome documentary to every member of Congress. In June 2002, she presented her Gulf War Syndrome book on C-Span 2 BookTV. In 2004, she received the American Academy of Environmental Medicine’s Carleton Lee Award for “exemplary efforts in furthering the principles of environmental medicine.”