Diana Kenney

Diana Kenney is a science writer/editor at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, where she also directs the MBL’s Logan Science Journalism fellowship program. Formerly, she worked as a journalist and editor for several publications. She began her career in science communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s. Diana holds a M.A. in the History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota. Her master’s thesis analyzed early discussions of human genetic engineering in the scientific community, and how they intersected with the debate about recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s. She has been observing and writing about genetic engineering technologies with great interest since the start of her career.