Alondra Nelson is Deputy Director for Science and Society for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and president of the Social Science Research Council. Nelson is author, most recently, of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Her publications also include Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination; Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History; and Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. She is also editor of “Afrofuturism,” an influential special issue of Social Text. +