Jesse Reynolds, Project Director on Biotechnology Accountability, has been on the staff of the Center since its creation in 2001. In this role, he has spoken and written widely on the social implications and policy aspects of biotechnologies, particularly stem cell research and the implementation of California's Proposition 71. His work has been published in many of the state's major newspaper, and he has been cited by media outlets such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. He has a MS in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied as a US Environmental Protection Agency Fellow. While there, he was a co-founder of Students for Responsible Research, which monitored the impact of large-scale corporate funding for research on genetically modified crops.
Later this year, Jesse will begin work towards a PhD as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, examining the governance of geoengineering.
The Center for Genetics and Society is a nonprofit information and public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. We work with a growing network of scientists, health professionals, civil society leaders, and others.
The Center supports benign and beneficent medical applications of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies, and opposes those applications that objectify and commodify human life and threaten to divide human society.
The Center works in a context of support for the equitable provision of health technologies domestically and internationally; for women's health and reproductive rights; for the protection of our children; for the rights of the disabled; and for precaution in the use of technologies that could alter the fundamental processes of the natural world.
Later this year, Jesse will begin work towards a PhD as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, examining the governance of geoengineering.