Meet Our Speaker

Senior Research Scholar

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology

Georgetown University

Washington DC

Alyssa M. Newman is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown. Previously, she was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at Harvey Mudd College. Her research currently focuses on race and assisted reproductive technologies, as well as on institutional solutions to racial health disparities. She has also published extensively on multiraciality, exploring the topic through a variety of research projects relating to collective identity formation; biology and genetics; the intersection of mixedness and masculinity; immigration; as well as family relationships and reproduction. Her work can be found in journals such as Bioethics, New England Journal of Medicine, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Medical Anthropology. 

Dr. Newman received her PhD in Sociology with a doctoral emphasis in Black Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara.