Team

PlasticList team met on X through a series of posts about plastic chemicals in food. Many of us did not have a background in chemistry, but we were all interested in the problem. We were helped by expert advisors and sponsors.

Core Team

Nat Friedman

Instigator

Yaroslav Shipilov

Team leader

Chandhana Sathishkumar

Hydrocarbons and Art at UNC, on leave

Claire Zhang

Computer Science at Columbia

Richel Murata

Biomedical & Materials Engineering at CMU

Advisors

Shanna Swan

One of the world’s leading epidemiologists, professor at Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai

John Brock

Analytical chemist, professor at UNC-Asheville, previously ran the chemical analysis lab at the CDC
Advisor through JW Brock Consulting LLC

Patrick Hsu

Co-founder and Principal Investigator at the Arc Institute

Jenna Hua

Environmental health scientist, founder of Million Marker

Sponsors

Special thanks to Luke Farritor, Jacob Rintamaki, Hang Shu, Lenny Bogdonoff, Hersh Desai, Jon Evans, James Wade, Louise Giam, Max Schoening, Patrick Marsceill, Nick Kiser, and many others who helped us along the way.