Notes

I spend most of my days speaking with students shaping the answers to some of the world’s biggest issues–from cancer and rare diseases to climate change, housing, and more. At times I wonder what would happen if funding of these pursuits were determined by political appointees, or worse, people with little knowledge of these larger-than-life problems, with high outside motivation (i.e. profits) or to achieve a political agenda disguised as “truth.”

Science works for everyone when we are motivated by knowledge, solutions, connection and a deeper sense of purpose in knowing that we do these things for the good of the people, for society. Science does not work when funding decisions are tainted by the influence of political agendas that are more and more based on personal or corporate gains than scientific merit and a push for future that includes everyone.