Jill Stein

Jill Stein is an American physician who is better known as an environmental and political activist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on 14 May 1950 and raised in the suburb of Highland Park, she graduated from Harvard College in 1973 and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. She practiced medicine in the Boston area for 25 years and also served as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her concern about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment led her from clinical practice into activism, beginning with protests against coal plants in Massachusetts in 1998. She later became the Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in 2012, 2016 and 2024. This entry records her as a physician and teacher of medicine; her political career is outside the scope of the Medicine Atlas.