Joanna Kempner is an award-winning sociologist of science, medicine, technology, and inequality, and the author of Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine (Hachette Books, 2024) and Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health (Chicago, 2014). Kempner’s attention to overlooked problems in health and illness challenges how medicine talks about, understands, and makes policies for those it serves. Kempner’s research has been published in top journals across multiple disciplines, including Science, PLoS Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine and featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, PBS Newshour, and the BBC.
Website: www.joannakempner.com