Strategy Discussion Participants

Strategy Discussion Participants

The proposal for the Tarrytown Meetings was developed in the course of six strategy meetings convened by the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, San Francisco, New York, Cambridge and Washington DC, in 2007–2008. The sixty-six colleagues who participated are shown here.

  • Enola Aird, founder and director, The Motherhood Project
  • George Annas, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Adrienne Asch, Professor of Bioethics and Epidemiology and Population Health, Yeshiva University
  • Patricia Baird, Professor Emerita, University of British Columbia; former chair, Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
  • Diane Beeson, Chair, Sociology Dept, California State University East Bay
  • Paul Billings, Executive Chair, Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC
  • Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth
  • Jamie D. Brooks, Generations Ahead, Project Director on Race, Health and the Environment
  • Shannon Brownlee, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; author, Overtreated
  • Jenna Burton, Administrative Associate, Center for Genetics and Society
  • Alex Capron, Professor of Law, University of Southern California; former Director of Ethics, Human Rights and Health Law, World Health Organization; past president, International Association of Bioethics
  • John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies
  • Francine Coeytaux, reproductive health consultant; co-founder, Pacific Institute for Women's Health
  • Irene Crowe, President, Pettus-Crowe Foundation
  • Marsha Darling, Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies; Director, Center for African American & Ethnic Studies Program, Adelphi University
  • Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
  • Troy Duster, Professor of Sociology, New York University/University of California at Berkeley; past president, American Sociological Association
  • Susan Fogel, Coordinator, Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research
  • Alexander Gaguine, President, The Appleton Foundation
  • Merrill Goozner, Director, Integrity in Science Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest
  • Robert Gould, M.D., national board, Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Debra Greenfield, Fellow, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
  • Michael Grodin, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
  • Chuck Gutenson, Chief Operating Officer, Sojourners
  • Charles Halpern, public interest lawyer; founding dean, City University of New York School of Law; past president, Nathan Cummings Foundation
  • Jaydee Hanson, Policy Director, Center for Technology Assessment
  • Richard Hayes, Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
  • Lisa Ikemoto, Professor of Law and Bioethics, UC Davis
  • Rosario Isasi, Fellow, Centre de recherche en droit public, Université de Montréal.
  • Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Sujatha Jesudason, Executive Director, Generations Ahead
  • Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Tufts University; acting president, Council for Responsible Genetics
  • Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun
  • Cathy Lerza, Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Tides Foundation
  • Abby Lippman, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University; Canadian Women's Health Network
  • Gillian Madill, Genetic Technologies Campaigner, Friends of the Earth
  • Karen Maschke, Associate for Ethics and Science Policy; editor of IRB: Ethics & Human Research; Hastings Center
  • Bill McKibben, author, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
  • Vicki Michel, bioethics consultant and educator [deceased]
  • Wilma Montañez, Program Officer for Reproductive Rights, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
  • Stuart Newman, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College
  • Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves
  • Osagie Obasogie, Project Director, Bioethics, Law, and Society, Center for Genetics and Society
  • Sunita Puri, UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program
  • Marcus Raskin, Co-founder and Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
  • Jesse Reynolds, Project Director on Biotechnology in the Public Interest, Center for Genetics and Society
  • Milton Reynolds, Senior Program Associate, Facing History & Ourselves
  • Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Northwestern University
  • Jonathan Rowe, Executive Director, Tomales Bay Institute
  • Michael Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University
  • Dan Sarewitz, Professor of Science and Society, Arizona State University; Executive Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes
  • Pete Shanks, author, Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed
  • Evelyne Shuster, Director, Human Rights and Ethics Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia
  • Tania Simoncelli, Science Advisor, American Civil Liberties Union Technology & Liberty Program
  • Anne Sommers, Policy Counsel, American Association of People with Disabilities
  • Tina Stevens, Lecturer, San Francisco State University; Alliance for Humane Biotechnology
  • Belle Taylor-McGhee, Executive Director, Pharmacy Access Partnership
  • Katherine Thomson, UCSF doctoral student, Sociology
  • Charlie Weiner, Professor of the History of Science and Technology (Emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Leif Wellington Haase, Director, New America Foundation California Program
  • Sally Whelan, Program Manager, Our Bodies Ourselves
  • Rev. Byron Williams, Pastor, Resurrection Community Church; columnist, The Huffington Post
  • Patricia Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University; columnist, The Nation
  • David Winickoff, Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Society, University of California at Berkeley
  • Langdon Winner, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Miriam Yeung, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; board member, Generations Ahead