As the new leader of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Alondra Nelson is asking hard questions about equity in science and tech. But how much power will she have?
, a contributing editor at Politico Magazine, is a journalist based in Washington whose work examines the complicated intersections of technology and society.
When President Joe Biden took office, he promised in part to restore America’s faith in science, pledging to summon “science and truth” to combat Covid-19 and the climate crisis, after years of neglect and politicization by Donald Trump. For the first time, Biden elevated the post of science adviser to a cabinet level job. He appointed a high-powered genomics leader, Eric Lander, and charged him with delivering on Biden’s hugely ambitious cancer goals. And in less than a year, that all blew up.
Sitting in her office, Nelson says her time at OSTP is informed by the idea that “we have to have a frank historical accounting” about how decisions about the country’s use of science and technology “have not always been good.” “And if we want to do it better,” she continues, “if we want to do it in a way that benefits more people and includes more people, you have to have that conversation.
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