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Emily Beitiks
Co-Director of the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center
Project Director of the touring exhibition Patient No-More
Co-Director of the Superfest Disability Film Festival
Ruha Benjamin
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University
Founder of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab
Rajani Bhatia
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Albany
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
Director of the School of Arts and Humanities at Gallaudet University
Member of the NAD Subcommittee on Bioethics, the World Federation of the Deaf Bioethics Committee, and the UN Bioethics and Disability expert group
Consultant to the National Council on Disability’s bioethics white paper series
Marcy Darnovsky
Co-founder of the Center for Genetics and Society
Jocelyn De La Rosa
Co-Executive Director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
Margaret Eby
University of Pennsylvania Fellow in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics and Genomics
Co-organizer of the Legacies of Eugenics series at Los Angeles Review of Books
Nourbese Flint
President of All Above All and the All in Action Fund
Miroslava Chávez-García
Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-organizer for the launch of the Global Anti-Eugenics Centre
2025-26 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Michele Goodwin
Georgetown University Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy
Georgetown University Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Evelynn Hammonds
Harvard University Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University Professor of African and American Studies
Harvard University Professor in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director of the Project on Race and Gender in Science and Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
Karina Hernandez Hernandez (P’urhepecha)
PhD Candidate in Biology and Society at Arizona State University
Daniel Martinez HoSang
Yale Professor of American Studies
Leader of the Yale University Anti Eugenics Collective
Benedict Ipgrave
Doctoral Researcher at University College London
Founder of the anti-eugenics From Small Beginnings seminar and conversation series
Co-Director of the Anti-Eugenics Project
Lisa Ikemoto
UC Davis School of Law Professor
Member of the Center for Genetics and Society Advisory Board
Jennifer James
Associate Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging
Associate professor in the UCSF Bioethics Program
Community-engaged researcher on forced sterilizations inside California women’s prisons
Nesta Johnson
Principal of Nesta Rose Consulting
Of Counsel to Diana Adams Law & Mediation PLLC
Faculty member for the ABA Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence
Trainer with national LGBTQ+ legal organizations on resistance to discrimination in law and public systems
Jallicia Jolly
Amherst College Assistant Professor of American Studies, and Black Studies
Visiting Scholar at Princeton University’s Center on Transnational Policing and the Effron Center for the Study of America
Founder and Director of the Black Feminist Reproductive Justice, Equity, and HIV/AIDS Activism Collective
Co-organizer of the Reproductive Justice Futurisms Think Tank Convenings and Smith and Amherst Colleges
Jessica Lehman
Disability and Aging Consultant
Former Executive Director for Senior and Disability Action
Emily K. Merchant
UC Davis Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies Faculty Advisor for Medical Humanities
Osagie K. Obasogie
UC Berkeley School of Law Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor with joint appointment in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health
Co-organizer of the Legacies of Eugenics article series at Los Angeles Review of Books
Aaron Panofsky
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Director and Professor
UCLA Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
Daniel Papillon
PhD candidate at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences
Coordinator of the International Coalition to Stop Designer Babies
John Poulos
Policy Analyst at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Jenny Reardon
UC, Santa Cruz Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center
Milton Reynolds
Educator, Facilitator and Community Activist exploring how historical systems of power shape present-day racial and social inequities.
Literacy for Environmental Justice Chair
Dorothy Roberts
University of Pennsylvania George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology
Penn Carey Law inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society
Oliver Rollins
MIT Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society
NSF CAREER Awardee investigating the intersections between social justice and science
Loretta Ross
Smith College Associate Professor
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Co-founder
Reproductive Justice Futurisms Think Tank Convenings Co-organizer
Camisha Russell
Feminist Philosopher working in Critical Philosophy of Race with a particular strength in Bioethics and a growing interest in the relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity in (the settler colony known as) the United States
University of Oregon Associate Professor of Philosophy
Alexandra Minna Stern
UCLA Division of Humanities Dean
Sterilization and Social Justice Lab Director
Katie Stoll
Genetic Support Foundation Executive Director
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Leading bioethicist, author and disabilities studies scholar
Hastings Center Senior Advisor and Fellow
Emory University Professor Emerita
Krystal Tsosie (Diné/Navajo Nation)
Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Assistant Professor
Native BioData Consortium Co-founder
Silvia Yee
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Public Policy Director
Teacher of disability rights law at UC Berkeley School of Law