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Book Talk — The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
November 5, 2019 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Bina Venkataraman teaches in the program on science, technology & society at MIT and is the author of “The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age” (Riverhead Books, 2019). She is the incoming Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe. Bina formerly served as Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute and as Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation in the Obama White House. Prior to that, she was a science journalist for The New York Times and The Boston Globe. She is a fellow at New America.