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
To the Editor:
In “‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...
What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...
Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...
In the News
In her essay, Merve Emre declares that “all reproduction . . . is assisted.” Few feminists of any wave or...
In 2004, Voters approved Proposition 71 by nearly 60 percent establishing a $3 billion bond to fund the science of...
From the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, to the FDA's approval of BiDil as the first race-specific medication to...
Biopolitical Times
Ruth Hubbard — prominent biologist, feminist scholar, multi-faceted social justice advocate, and critic of what she termed “the gene myth”...
A fertility industry-sponsored bill that would expand the market in human eggs is barreling through the California legislature, in spite...
Currently, California – like many countries – allows women who provide eggs for research to be reimbursed for travel, lost...
Talks and Testimonies
Innovations in gene editing, and particularly CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of...
CGS Executive Director Marcy Darnovsky spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on...
The Center for Genetics and Society receives numerous invitations to speak in person and via video link to high school,...