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
Should CRISPR be used to alter the genes and traits of future children and generations? Dozens of nations have considered this...
As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it...
Last fall, when a Chinese scientist announced that he had created genetically modified twin babies, the world was stunned and...
In the News
UC Berkeley professor of law and bioethics Osagie K. Obasogie was elected for membership to the National Academy of Medicine...
The film Gattaca is set in a world in which gene manipulation is common. When parents decide to have children...
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
Hosted by Stanford BioLaw and Health Policy Society, which invites speakers to present on-campus to discuss their current work/research in...
Marcy Darnovsky was a workshop speaker at the 27th annual National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California.
Dramatic advances in...
LA-based Black Women for Wellness, hosted "Black Women for Wellness Futrism Conference," which merged reproductive justice issues and futurism as...