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

Ruha Benjamin
Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American studies at Princeton University

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

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.

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

Marcy Darnovsky
Author and policy advocate

Troy Duster
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

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

Duana Fullwiley
Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University

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

Katie Hasson
Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society

Daniel HoSang
Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Lily Hu
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

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

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

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

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

Michael C. Lu
Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

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

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

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

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

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

Milton Reynolds
Career educator, author, equity and inclusion consultant, activist

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

Jessica Riskin
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Stanford University

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

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

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

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

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

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Professor Emerita of English and Bioethics, Emory University