Christa Hasenkopf serves as the Director of the Clean Air Program at the University of Chicago and leads the EPIC Air Quality Fund. Her work focuses on identifying systemic resource gaps in neglected problems and building durable infrastructure to address them, particularly in the realm of air pollution, which she identifies as a significant environmental and public health crisis.

Hasenkopf co-founded OpenAQ, which has grown into the world's largest open air quality database.