Photographer
Nancy M. Stuart

Nancy Stuart is an award-winning portrait photographer and the Executive Vice President and COO of the Cleveland Institute of Art.
She is past Associate Dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology, and a professor of photography. Her DES Stories portraits have shown throughout the U.S. and been awarded a prestigious John Kobal prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Stuart admires the women and men she photographed for DES Stories. "Each person is a co-creator by giving a human face and story to something that cannot be seen. By looking into the camera they break through the anonymous wall around DES. They are the healers and storytellers."

Author
Margaret Lee Braun

Margaret Braun is the Co-Founder and past Executive Director of the DES Cancer Network, based in Washington, D.C. Margaret has played a key role working with consumer groups, legislators, scientists, and the National Cancer Institute to gain successful DES legislation resulting in DES research and public education. She has consulted on DES studies and serves on the NCI steering committee overseeing DES medical research in the U.S. Her work as a DES advocate, and her personal experience as DES daughter and survivor of DES cancer inspires her recording of DES stories.

For thirteen years Margaret worked closely with individuals facing illness, cancer, and reproductive heartbreak because of DES. "My heart was full of a thousand stories in search of a voice to speak," she says.

"DES happens on the body, but the body gets left out the telling," she says. She documents the human story of DES to add to statistical literature. DES Stories explores the personal and social responses at the heart of the DES experience."The best way to upend the silence around DES is to tell our stories," Braun says. "It's a powerful way to heal, bear witness, and change the world."

Author and Photographer