The Tech Policy Lab is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting Alondra Nelson for our Distinguished Lecture the evening of Thursday, April 3rd on the UW campus. Please save the date! Additional information, including RSVP, will be available closer to the event here at techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/.

Alondra Nelson, a renowned scholar and author, is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, where she leads the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab. Author of The Social Life of DNA, she served as Deputy Assistant to President Biden and Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where her work advanced responsible technological development, scientific integrity, and public access to taxpayer-funded research.

In 2023, she was named to the inaugural TIME100 list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence and recognized by Nature as one of the “Ten People Who Shaped Science.” Dr. Nelson also advises governments and global\ organizations and is a distinguished member of leading scientific and policy academies.