Kristin Shrader-Frechette

Shrader-Frechette taught at University of California before accepting an endowed chair in the Biological Sciences Department and the Philosophy Department at University of Notre Dame, where she directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health. For 28 years, the US National Science Foundation has funded her research, mostly on quantitative risk assessment, radiobiology, and energy policy. Her latest (2011) book, What Will Work, addresses solutions to climate change.