Jessica Nordell

Jessica Nordell is a writer and science journalist, and author of The End of Bias: A Beginning (Metropolitan Books/Holt), which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. The End of Bias is a solutions journalism odyssey through the science and psychology of unexamined bias and discrimination, and how it has been successfully tackled-- from healthcare and education to policing, the workplace, and more. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, the New Republic, and the Washington Post. The End of Bias was named a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, Greater Good, AARP and Inc. She received her B.A. in physics from Harvard and M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her 11th great grandmother was the last woman to be tried for witchcraft in the state of Massachusetts.