Reshaping US Science and Technology
April 29, 2022
As temporary director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, Alondra Nelson wants to ensure that the nation’s science and technology complex “benefits more people and includes more people,” she tells Politico. To that challenge she brings a new perspective—as a sociologist and a Black woman. In an interview with Issues, Nelson talks about creating “a new social compact for science and technology policy” that would use social science to improve policymaking. A key aim: “to address head-on disparities and inequities that exist because of things that have happened in the past and continue to happen in the present.”