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Speaker Profile
Dr. Alondra Nelson
President, Social Science Research Council
Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
About
Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is an acclaimed researcher and author, who explores questions of science, technology, and social inequality. Nelson’s books include, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination and The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. She is coeditor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race and History (with Keith Wailoo and Catherine Lee) and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life (with Thuy Linh N. Tu). Nelson serves on the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Russell Sage Foundation, and on the Board of Directors of the Teagle Foundation and the Data & Society Research Institute. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Medicine.
Speaker Session
Speaker Sessions
Welcome: COVID-19 as a Defining Moment for the Social Sciences: Dr. Alondra Nelson, President, Social Science Research Council
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Learn how the world’s largest professional organization for social scientists is mobilizing researchers in 80 countries to study and learn from COVID-19, and why insights from this community of scholars have never been more important as we navigate and recover from the pandemic.
Session IV: Implications – Race & Vulnerable Populations
Just as the virus exacerbated pre-existing medical conditions in individual bodies, the pandemic exploited and aggravated pre-existing structural weaknesses producing high vulnerability among essential workers, minorities, the poor, and underserved rural communities. Hear from leading practitioners about how we can realign systems to equitably support those most in need.
