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                                                                   Welcome to the 58th Annual California Council for the Social Studies Conference
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Marcy Darnovsky

Center for Genetics and Society
Executive Director
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley, California-based social justice organization that works to ensure an equitable future in which human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies benefit the common good. She speaks and writes widely on human biotechnologies, focusing on their social justice, equity, human rights, and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, and many others; Beyond Bioethics: Towards a New Biopolitics, an anthology co-edited with Osagie Obasogie, was published in March 2018 by the University of California Press. 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.