Alondra Nelson
About
Alondra Nelson is an American policymaker, writer, and academic. She is the Harold F. Linder Chair and Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey. She is Deputy Assistant to the President and currently serving as acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). From 2017-2021, she was President of the Social Science Research Council, an independent, nonpartisan international research nonprofit organization. She was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University, where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science, as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her academic career on the faculty of Yale University.
