Dr. Kristi Pullen Fedinick currently serves as the Assistant Director for Environmental Justice Science and Technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She also holds a position as an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health of the Milken Institute School of Public Health of the George Washington University. With over 25 years of transdisciplinary research experience, Dr. Pullen Fedinick has worked for the last 15 years at the intersection of science and public policy to advance data-driven, health-protective, community-oriented solutions to environmental problems. Her work has focused on effecting positive change at the local and national levels, where she has used scientific tools to advance protections for people and communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation.

Dr. Pullen Fedinick has authored multiple policy reports and peer-reviewed articles, and has served on numerous influential communities of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – including appointments to the EPA Chartered Science Advisory Board and a workgroup of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council on cumulative impacts. Dr. Pullen Fedinick has served in leadership positions within several environmental organizations including as the Executive Director of the Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy and as the inaugural Chief Science Officer of the Natural Resources Defense Council.