bold idea
Enable powerful climate activism, journalism, policy, and science across the globe by building an open, real-time air quality data hub.
organization overview
OpenAQ is a community of scientists, software developers, and lovers of environmental data that is opening the world’s air quality. It is building the first global open-source real-time platform that provides programmatic and historical air quality data access to anyone around the world. OpenAQ’s community and platform will give the public data, insights, and voices they previously didn’t have. Its goal is to enable science, influence policy, and empower the public in the fight against one of the biggest global health threats of our time.
Personal Bio
Christa Hasenkopf is the founding Director of the Clean Air Program at EPIC, as well as the founder of the EPIC Air Quality Fund. Her career focuses on efforts that open up information, resources, and networks so that more people in more places can help make the air they breathe healthier. Previously, she co-founded and was the CEO of OpenAQ, an environmental tech non-profit, which fosters a global community around the world’s largest open database of air quality information. She has also served as the Chief Air Pollution Advisor to the Office of Medical Services at the US Department of State and in multiple positions at the US Agency for International Development. Hasenkopf received a PhD in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences from the University of Colorado and a BS in Astronomy & Astrophysics from The Pennsylvania State University.
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