Alondra Nelson, Columbia University, author of 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. 

Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. 

Co-sponsored by The Black Feminist Think Tank and the Working Group on Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine, with the generous support of GT-FIRE

About the Working Group
The Race + Racism in Biomedicine Working Group was founded in 2015 with seed funding from the Georgia Tech Provost with the goal of building intellectual common ground among researchers coming from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and to spark interdisciplinary and cross-institution collaborative research on race and racism in contemporary biomedical research.