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.
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Publications
In the News
Biopolitical Times
Concerns about cross-border fertility arrangements – especially human rights violations of women serving as surrogate mothers or providing eggs –...
A committee of California’s state stem cell agency met on February 4 to consider whether it should fund genetic editing...
For controversy and consequence, no story in 2015 came close to the rapidly developing CRISPR-Cas9 “gene editing” tools, and the...
Talks and Testimonies
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Marcy Darnovsky delivered the convocation address at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
In her...
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The Baby Markets International Congress celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Baby Markets Roundtable series founded by the Center for...
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Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB with support...