Catalyst Staff

Krista Frederico, PhD

Director, Implementation Partnership

Krista Frederico, PhD, is Director, Implementation Partnership at Catalyst. Prior to that, she was a Senior Associate in Women and the Future of Work.

Krista earned her PhD from The University of Arizona in Sociology, with emphases in gender and culture, where she won a teaching award for developing the capstone course, “Women and Work.” For her dissertation, Krista explored how women—particularly mothers of young children—come to join and sell multi-level marketing products in search of flexible work. She is passionate about dismantling systemic inequities, including norms that impede women from receiving fair compensation for flexible employment. Krista is a Disney-parks enthusiast, along with her husband and three children.