About the Speakers:

Bill McKibben’s first book, The End of Nature, was also the first book for a general audience about global warming. Excerpted in the New Yorker, it is now available in 20 languages. His other eight books include The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild, as well as his most recent: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. His work appears regularly in Harpers, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Outside, and a variety of other national publications. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, he has been the recipient of Lyndhurst and Guggenheim Fellowships, and was the 2000 winner of the Lannan Prize for Nonfiction Writing. A graduate of Harvard College, his work has been collected in annual volumes of America’s Best Nature Writing, Science Writing, Spiritual Writing, and Travel Writing, as well as in the Oxford and Norton anthologies of nature writing. His tenth book, “Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Region, Vermont’s Champlain Valley and new York’s Adirondacks,” will be published in April. He is currently at work on a book about economy and scale.

Dr. Marcy Darnovsky is Associate Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a public interest organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. She has taught courses on the politics of science, technology, and the environment at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, and on the sociology of gender at Hayward State University. She has written widely on subjects including the U.S. environmental movement and the politics of human genetic technology, and has worked as an activist in a range of progressive political movements.