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Dr. Alondra Nelson, the Dean of Social Science and professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, in New York City, is our guest in this edition of Radio Curious. Professor Nelson is the author of "The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome." She is also the author of "Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination," which she and I have previously discussed on Radio Curious.