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Alondra Nelson

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Alondra Nelson
Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for Science and Society
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byPosition established
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Acting
In office
February 18, 2022 – October 3, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byEric Lander
Succeeded byArati Prabhakar
Personal details
Born1968 (age 55–56)
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, San Diego (BA)
New York University (MA, PhD)
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineScience and technology studies
Political sociology
Social movements
Cultural sociology
Social theory
African American studies
InstitutionsInstitute for Advanced Study
Social Science Research Council
Columbia University
Yale University

Alondra Nelson (born 1968) is an American writer and academic. Nelson is the Acting Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy since 2022. She is the Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. She currently serves as Deputy Director for Science and Society in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under the Joe Biden administration since 2021.

From 2017 until 2021, she was president of the Social Science Research Council. She was a professor of sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York.[1]

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