Host

Osagie K. Obasogie

Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program.
 

Keynote Speakers

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Ruha Benjamin

Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American studies at Princeton University

Michelle Goodwin

Michele Goodwin

Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy, Georgetown Law

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Evelynn Hammonds

Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science Professor of African and African American Studies & Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T. Chan School of Public Health.

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Dorothy Roberts

George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Panelists

Aubrey

Aubrey Clayton

Mathematician and researcher teaching the philosophy of probability and statistics at the Harvard Extension School

Marcy

Marcy Darnovsky

Author and policy advocate

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Troy Duster

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

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Margaret Eby

Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

 

Duana

Duana Fullwiley

Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

Helena

Helena Hansen

Professor and Interim Chair of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, Interim Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

Julie

Julie Harris-Wai

Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing

Katie

Katie Hasson

Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society

 

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Daniel HoSang

Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Lily Hu

Lily Hu

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

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Jennifer James

Associate Professor, Institute for Health & Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing

Jay Kaufman

Jay Kaufman

Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health, McGill University

 

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Terence Keel

Professor, Department of African American Studies and the University of California Los Angeles Institute for Society & Genetics

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Erin Kerrison

Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley

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Michael C. Lu

Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Emily

Emily KlancherMerchant

Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

 

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Karen Nakamura

Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

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Aaron Panofsky

Director of and a Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics and Professor in Public Policy, and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles

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Michele Pridmore-Brown

Science Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Research Scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley

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Jenny Reardon

Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz

 

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Milton Reynolds

Career educator, author, equity and inclusion consultant, activist

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Corinne Riddell

Associate adjunct professor of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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Jessica Riskin

Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Stanford University

Oliver Rollins

Oliver Rollins

Old Dominion Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

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Michael Rossi

Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, Chair, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago

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Tina Sacks

Associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Eric Stanley

Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley

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Alex Stern

Humanities Dean, Professor of English and History, Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Rosemarie

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Professor Emerita of English and Bioethics, Emory University