When Debra Cochran, a resident of Pageville in Meigs County, began hearing news reports about DuPont’s contamination of drinking water with the Teflon chemical C8 in 2002, she wondered whether her children’s health could be harmed by the chemical. Debra used her experience as an educator to research and prepare informational materials about the dangers of C8, and began attending and speaking at any public meeting where the issue could be brought up, including the board meetings of local water supplies, the Chamber of Commerce, and other civic meetings. She used a variety of tactics to bring the issue into the open, including proposing a petition to have DuPont removed from the American Chemistry Council’s “Responsible Care” program. Debra worked closely with the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C., the national organization which exposed many of DuPont’s internal documents about the dangers of C8, and Ohio Citizen Action to organize a successful public meeting at Meigs High School in June 2004. She appeared in newspaper articles from the Washington Post and New York Times to the Marietta Times and Athens Messenger, and national radio and television, including ABC’s 20/20. In the past two years, Debra and her family have inspired everyone they know with their courage, mutual support, and faith in confronting a serious injury to their daughter Kimberly. Debra and her husband C.W. have been instrumental in forming the new Athens Chapter of the Ohio Brain Injury Association.