Marcy Darnovsky
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their social justice and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy, New Scientist and many others. She has appeared on dozens of television, radio, and online news shows and has been interviewed and cited in hundreds of news and magazine articles. She has worked as an organizer and advocate in a range of environmental and progressive political movements, and taught courses at Sonoma State University and at California State University East Bay. Her Ph.D. is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publications
From the thirteenth floor of a glass tower at the Oregon Health & Science University, you get a panoramic view...
Women leave jobs at mid-career in tech at higher rates than those in other fields. It's possible that benefits like
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On Friday, FDA sent him a letter notifying him of his violations
The doctor who created a genetically modified “three-parent...
In the News
TWO TRENDS are on the rise, and one is about to make the other worse.
The first is epitomized in...
As the scientific community takes in the work of the team who edited the DNA of the human embryos this
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After the blockbuster announcement a U.S. team successfully edited human embryos come the tough medical and ethical questions. We’ll talk...
Biopolitical Times
Scholars researching California’s twentieth-century legacy of eugenic sterilization, led by University of Michigan professor and Center for Genetics and Society ...
The biggest surprise of the year was probably the birth, in Mexico, of a baby who was conceived following controversial...
Ruth Hubbard — prominent biologist, feminist scholar, multi-faceted social justice advocate, and critic of what she termed “the gene myth”...
Talks and Testimonies
Sponsored by the Health and societies of the Lang Center, Sociology and Anthropology, Black Studies.
Marcy Darnovsky and Dorothy...
Hosted by Stanford BioLaw and Health Policy Society, which invites speakers to present on-campus to discuss their current work/research in...
LA-based Black Women for Wellness, hosted "Black Women for Wellness Futrism Conference," which merged reproductive justice issues and futurism as...