Andrew Fraknoi
Andrew Fraknoi retired as Chair of the Astronomy Department for Foothill College in 2017, and now teaches courses for retired adults at the Fromm Institute at the U. of San Francisco. He served as the ASP’s Executive Director from 1978-1992 and helped set up many of its educational programs. He is the lead author of OpenStax Astronomy, a free online book which is now the leading intro astronomy text in the U.S., and founded and co-edited the journal Astronomy Education Review with Sidney Wolff. He has served on the Board of the SETI Institute for more than 40 years. In his spare time, he is writing short astronomical science fiction, with 11 stories published so far.
