Sloan Barnett
As a regular contributor on NBC´s "Today Show," Sloan appears monthly live in the studio. On KNTV, she presents weekly green reporting packages and then answers topic-related questions live. Her stories have ranged from the controversies surrounding organic food labeling to the issues concerning children and cell phones.
Sloan has also appeared on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" (on "Going Green 101"), PBS ("Building Green"), and as a green expert on Reuters and Fox. Before her recent move to California, Sloan was a consumer contributor for Court TV´s "Catherine Crier Live," where she could be seen weekly in the studio offering consumer advice and answering viewer e-mails and letters. She joined Court TV in 2004 as an anchor and host for "Open Court," "Both Sides," and "Closing Arguments."
Previously, Sloan was a co-host and consumer expert for the program "Lifetime Now," which aired weekly on the Lifetime Network. Before this, she was the consumer reporter for "Pure Oxygen," the Oxygen Network´s highest-rated program, and a co-host for Oxygen´s "SheCommerce," a woman's consumer talk show.
Born and raised in New York City, Sloan graduated magna cum laude from Brown University before earning a law degree at New York University´s School of Law, where she is now a member of the Board of Trustees. Upon graduation, she worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. As an ADA, Sloan handled a full range of cases including narcotics, robbery, domestic violence and assault from arrest through trial.
From 1998 through 1999, Sloan co-hosted a talk/magazine-format show with Phyllis George called "Woman´s Day TV." The program appeared nationally, every weekday on PaxTV, and included celebrity interviews and segments covering all issues relating to women.
Sloan lives in San Francisco with her husband and three children.
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Articles by Sloan Barnett
October 10, 2008
The vast majority of perfumes-from the cheapest drugstore brands to the most famous and expensive designer names-are mostly made by just eight international labs, and each brand of perfume typically contains dozens of synthetic chemicals derived from coal tar, petroleum distillates, and pine resin.