Environmental Risk Factors and Iowa’s Cancer Crisis
Harkin Institute & Iowa Environmental Council

Kerri Johannsen is the Senior Director of Policy and Programs with the Iowa Environmental Council, providing strategic oversight and advocacy strategy across the Council’s Energy, Climate Initiatives, and Water Programs. She has two decades of experience in energy and environmental policy and has previously served as the Council’s Energy Program Director as well as Manager of Government Affairs. Kerri previously served as professional staff with the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, administered the Iowa Power Fund for innovative clean energy projects, and worked as an analyst and Legislative Liaison with the Iowa Utilities Commission before joining the Council in 2016. Kerri was a visiting researcher with the Florence School of Regulation in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 2024. She has a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

Adam Shriver joined The Harkin Institute as a research fellow in 2021, working on a Kellogg Foundation grant to create a “good food plan” for the state of Iowa. He took on the role of Interim Director of Wellness and Nutrition Policy in 2022, which includes organizing the annual Harkin On Wellness Symposium. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at Oxford University. Adam has also taught courses on biomedical ethics, the ethics of food, and ethics of artificial intelligence at Drake University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Iowa State University as well as a Ph.D. from the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis.