Alondra Nelson
Alondra Nelson (born April 22, 1968) is an American academic,
policy advisor, non-profit administrator, and
writer. She is the
Harold F. Linder chair and professor in the School of Social Science at the
Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in
Princeton, New Jersey. From 2021 to 2023, Nelson was deputy assistant to President
Joe Biden and principal deputy director for science and society of the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she performed the duties of the director from February to October 2022. She was the first
African American and first woman of color to lead OSTP. Prior to her role in the
Biden Administration, she served for four years as president and CEO of the
Social Science Research Council, an independent, nonpartisan international nonprofit organization. Nelson was previously professor of sociology at
Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science, as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her academic career on the faculty of
Yale University.
Nelson writes and lectures widely on the intersections of science, technology, medicine, and social inequality. She has authored or edited articles, essays, and four books including, most recently, ''The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome''.
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