Hannah Rosen

I thought I was I thought this was it.

I'd found I'd found the thing I was going to do forever.

This is Elizabeth Poole, one of the people Frank spoke with.

I worked for the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency in Region 5.

That's the Chicago office, the Great Lakes office.

And my job was the Children's Environmental Health Coordinator there.

I helped people not just at the agency, but our partners across the six states we served.

figure out ways to make better decisions on behalf of children.

I'm from Kentucky, grew up in Kentucky, and so I've spent a lot of time in coal country.

And so seeing the devastation that coal mining can do on Appalachia, that sort of drove me into wanting to work in the environmental field.

The children's health role was absolutely my dream job.

As soon as I found out it even existed at EPA, it was something I knew I wanted to do.

We got to help families,

make better decisions to keep a healthier home.

We got to help schools reduce exposures.

We got to do really amazing things to help children experience environmental exposures differently, both from a physiological standpoint, but also a behavioral standpoint.

And so we need to make sure that we're being as protective as possible to vulnerable populations.

In early 2025, Milwaukee discovered that lead paint had poisoned at least four students in its public schools.

Poole was ready to descend with tests and guidance, but the Trump administration forbade her team from working on the crisis, an allegation that the EPA disputes.