Angela Saini
“All this intellectual jumping through hoops to maintain the status quo. All this to prove what they have always really wanted to know: that they are superior. Well, keep reaching, keep reaching. One day there will be nothing left to reach for.”
Angela Saini Angela Saini is an award-winning journalist and Assistant Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her books include The Patriarchs (2023), which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, Superior: The Return of Race Science (2019), which was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize, and Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong (2017).
Angela’s writing and reporting focus on how science interacts with society, especially on how it affects marginalized groups, and she has been acclaimed for her work by a diverse range of organizations and institutions. She has worked as a reporter and presenter for the BBC and has written for a number of publications, including The Guardian, New Scientist, and Wired UK. She has also produced and presented several radio and television documentaries, including a BBC Radio 4 documentary on biofuels and a BBC World Service documentary on the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. She was named one of the world’s top fifty thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2020. She lives in Boston and New York.
