"I decided to write this for three reasons. I wanted a vehicle to keep the spotlight bright on the Flint water crisis because I knew that the nation's attention would fade while many of the needs and problems resulting from the crisis would remain. Second, I also wanted a vessel to share the Flint story not only for our terrible lessons, but to also share that there are Flints everywhere, communities raddled with poverty, injustice, and lost democracy. Finally, I wanted a megaphone to tell the story of how science spoke truth to power and how we are using the cutting-edge science of what toxic stress does to the brain, to build resilience and give hope to the kids of Flint, and kids everywhere."

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