Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. A sociologist whose work explores science, technology, and social inequality, she served as Deputy Assistant to President Biden and Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In that role, she led the development of the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, a framework for protecting civil rights in the age of artificial intelligence. She has participated in the U.S. Senate AI Insight Forum, served on the UN’s High-level Advisory Body on AI, and contributed to the International AI Safety Report.
Nelson is the author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome and Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination. Her work illuminates how emerging technologies intersect with questions of justice, equity, and human dignity.