Jessica Nordell
Science journalist and writer
Jessica Nordell is an American science journalist, writer and poet. She wrote The End of Bias, which looks at how unexamined discrimination can be tackled.
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About Jessica Nordell
Jessica Nordell is an American writer, poet and science journalist. She studied physics at Harvard and later earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, the New Republic and the Washington Post. Her first book, The End of Bias, explores the science and psychology of unexamined bias. It also follows efforts to reduce discrimination in areas such as healthcare, education and policing. The book won the Nautilus Award and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.