Interviews & Profiles in print

Articles about and interviews with me on my life and work as a Black scientist, public intellectual, and literary editor.

• Symmetry A Call to Cite Black Women and Gender Minorities

• New York Magazine Intelligencer A Cosmologist’s Case for Staying Put on Earth

• Nature Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: A Force in Physics

• VICE Motherboard The Physicist and Social Theorist Fighting for Equality in Science

• American Institute of Physics Oral History Interviews: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Tech Crunch Decolonization and Intersectionality in Tech with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Public Books Public Thinker: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Dark Matter and White Empiricism

• Symmetry Magazine Get to know 10 early-career theorists

• Ms. Magazine Why Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Fuses Physics with Black Feminism

• Lady Science Talking Feminist Astrophysics with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (podcast)

• Tech Crunch Intersectionality and Decolonization in Tech with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Tech Crunch How to Think About Inclusion in Tech with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Slate Where LeBron Should Play Next Year, According to a Theoretical Astrophysicist

• Essence Magazine 15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers (February 2018 print issue)

• BooksActually A Theoretical Physicist's Reading List -- Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Gizmodo These Black Women Mathematicians Should Be Stars of the Blockbusters of Tomorrow

• Nylon 10 Black Women in Academia You Need to Know About: Hidden Figures

• Gizmodo A Black Female Astrophysicist Explains Why Hidden Figures Isn't Just About History

• Huffington Post Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D.

• DISCOV/HER 5 Amazing Women Astronomers You Should Know

• The Daily of the University of Washington Less than 200 black American women have ever received doctoral degrees in physics

• Spark Plug Labs 31 Days of Awesome Women: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD: A Day in the Life of an Astrophysicist

• African American Intellectual History Society Blog Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Gawker Times Six: Finding a Language for Borders, Theft, and History

• The Setup Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Uses This

• Hello Beautiful These 73 Gorgeous Black Female Scientists Inspire Us & The World

• Publisher's Weekly The 'Offing' Looks Ahead After Editor Resigns

• Women Who Submit Behind the Editor's Desk: Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Room Magazine #LitMagLove: The Offing's Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• Writer's Chronicle Interview about The Offing (December 2016)

Press featuring my commentary

A selection of press featuring my commentary on science, society, and the spaces in between.

• University Affairs How a group of physicists started a protest movement in solidarity with Black Lives Matter

• New York Times For a day, scientists pause science to confront racism

• Gizmodo Scientists call for academic shutdown in support of Black lives

• New Scientist Tiny dark matter stars would harbour particles that act as one

• Gizmodo Mind-Blowing New Theory Connects Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves

• FiveThirtyEight How Big Is Space? Check Back In A Few Billion Years

• Astronomy Magazine Could Dark Matter Really Be First Generation Black Holes?

• Washington Post Women of Color Face Staggering Harassment in Science

• USA Today Women of color in STEM face greater risks of gender, racial harassment at work 

• Gizmodo Women of Color Face a Staggering Amount of Harassment in Astronomy

• Mashable Widespread Harassment Revealed in Astronomy and Planetary Science

• Los Angeles Times Black scientists respond to Scalia's suggestion that 'less advanced' classes are more suitable

• Vocativ What The Hell Is Going On With Dark Energy?

• The Establishment On Police Brutality, Who Are We To Believe?

• Astronomy Magazine Fighting for Visibility

• Jackson Free Press Making Their Own Space

• Elle Magazine Advice to Malia Obama on How to Make the Most of Harvard

• Live Science Are the Nobel Prizes Missing Female Scientists?

• Publishers Weekly The Offing Looks Ahead After Editor Resigns

• Los Angeles Times #IStandWithAhmed Lesson: Curiosity is for white kids

• Smithsonian.com Why The Universe Needs More Black and Latino Astronomers

• Alternet Scientific Stars Join Activists: Noted Palestinian Professor Arrested and Released—Again

• Boston Globe Gay Activists Lobby Harvard to Increase Aid Funds Sought For Those Estranged From Parents