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Dr. Josiah Zayner is a biohacker and CEO who is constantly pushing the boundaries of science outside traditional environments including human genetic engineering. After his Ph.D., he worked at NASA's Synthetic Biology program, genetically engineering bacteria to help terraform Mars. He left NASA to found The ODIN, a company that makes genetic engineering available to consumers at home. His work has been featured in Time, Scientific American, Le Monde, Businessweek, The Guardian and NPR, among many others. He enjoys whiskey and Red Bull, sometimes together.

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley, California-based public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies. She speaks and writes widely on human biotechnologies, focusing on their social justice, equity, human rights, and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and many others. Beyond Bioethics: Towards a New Biopolitics, an anthology co-edited with Osagie K. Obasogie, is forthcoming in March 2018 from the University of California Press. Her Ph.D. is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (Photo credit Barry Zuckerman)