Meet the Moderator: Kristi Rudenga

Kristi Rudenga is the director of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, where she is appointed as a teaching professor. She oversees the Kaneb Center team and is responsible for the center’s strategy, partnerships, and initiatives including the Notre Dame Inclusive Teaching Academy, Kaneb Center Course Design Academy, and Foundational Course Transformation Academy. She also consults with instructors on pedagogical approaches and facilitates seminar series and workshops on teaching and mentoring.

Kristi teaches courses like Food and the Brain, Pedagogy and Practice in the College Classroom, and The Art and Science of Learning. She writes about pedagogy for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and she has served on the Core Committee of the POD Network, the national organization supporting educational development.

Before coming to Notre Dame, she was associate director and science education specialist at the Yale Teaching Center. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Yale University, studying central brain representation of taste and food reward.