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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By Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, The American Interest (September - October 2009) | 08.13.2009

April 12, 1955 was a day of celebration. Across the United States, church bells rang, sirens blew, and people poured...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Democracy (Summer 2009) | 07.01.2009
By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 05.05.2009

The recent media storm over the in vitro fertilization-induced birth of octuplets has receded into the tabloids and entertainment pages...

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