Apoorva Mandavilli is a science journalist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker online, Slate, Popular Science, Discover, and others. She is also director of SFARI.org, the leading website for autism research news and an adjunct faculty member in New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
Nidhi Subbaraman is a staff writer at The Boston Globe's BetaBoston channel and a freelance science journalist. Her work has appeared online at NBCNews.com, Fast Company,New Scientist, Scientific American and elsewhere.
Culture Dish: Promoting Diversity in Science Writing
The most persistent — and infuriating — question about diversity in science writing has to be: "Why do we need diversity?" Sometimes that question is followed by this: "Isn't science color-blind?" To answer that second question first — no, science is most definitely not color-blind, any more than history or politics or literature is color-blind.