Annalee Newitz is a journalist and author. She’s the editor-in-chief of io9, a magazine about science and science fiction that gets over 5 million unique visitors per month; she’s also the author of the book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (http://www.scatteradaptandremember.com). Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Wired, Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

In previous lives, she was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a professor of American Studies at UC Berkeley.