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Mackenzie Brady Watson is a literary agent with Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, focusing on adult narrative non-fiction. As a former research scientist, she has a great passion for science books, especially if they are historically driven or revolutionize current theory, as well as sociology, investigative journalism, food writing, memoir, health and wellness, and business books. She particularly appreciates work that sheds light on marginalized experiences and helps contribute to the cultural conversation. In addition to being an agent, Mackenzie is…

Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., is the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Ingber currently leads a multifaceted effort at the Wyss Institute to develop breakthrough bioinspired technologies to advance healthcare and to improve sustainability. His work…

Jane Roberts, Deputy Editor of Undark magazine, graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned a B.A. in Journalism and Economics, with a minor in Environmental Studies. Before coming to the Knight Science Journalism program, Jane interned with the wealth team at Forbes, where she valued and wrote about some of the country’s richest billionaires. She joined Undark Magazine as Associate Editor in 2016 and has since developed its widely respected fact-checking program.

Anna Greka is an institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she directs the institute’s Kidney Disease Initiative. Greka is a physician-scientist leading the translation of scientific discoveries from the laboratory to clinical trials. She is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS); an associate physician in the Renal Division in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH); and the founding director of Kidney-NExT, a Center for Kidney Disease and Novel Experimental…

Dr. John Adams Jarcho is a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a deputy editor at the New England Journal of Medicine. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jarcho’s clinical interests include cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, cardiovascular genetics and heart transplantation. At the New England Journal, he is the editor responsible for reviewing and editing articles in the field of cardiovascular research. He has also played a central role in…

Gina McCarthy is Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard C-CHANGE). McCarthy has been a leading advocate for common sense strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. She served under President Barack Obama as the 13th Administrator of the EPA from 2013–2017.

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is both an honorary society that recognizes and celebrates the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton. Fellows Only.

Lydia Denworth is a Brooklyn-based science journalist whose work is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A contributing writer for Scientific American and Psychology Today, she has also written for the Atlantic and the New York Times.

Lisa Barsotti is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Kavli Institute / LIGO Laboratory. Her primary research interests include Strong Gravity & Gravitational Radiation, Gravitational Wave Detection, LIGO and Quantum Measurements. She received her PhD in Applied Physics from Pisa University, Italy, in 2006. Her research has led to groundbreaking findings in the field of quantum measurements.