Cristine Russell is an award-winning journalist who has written about science, health, and the environment for more than three decades. She’s a political junkie, with a strong interest in the intersection of science and public policy, particularly in areas of controversy. Russell is an adjunct lecturer and senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. A former Washington Post reporter, she is currently a contributing editor to Columbia Journalism Review and a correspondent for The Atlantic.com. Russell is the immediate past-president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a former NASW president.