Daphne Martschenko
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Daphne Martschenko (born November 6, 1992 in London)[1] is an American academic, teaching Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University.
Martschenko was born in London, to a Ukrainian father who was a U.S. foreign service officer, and a Nigerian mother.[2] She has three sisters.
She lived in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine while young.[3][4] She attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a member the crew team her freshman year.[5] She later attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she majored in Slavic languages and anthropology.[5][6] In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Cambridge, where she successfully defended her PhD, focused on the impact of behavioral genetics on the education system.[7]
Rowing career
While at Stanford, she earned two gold medals, one in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship.[3] She represented the United States at two World Rowing U23 Championships.[1] While at the University of Cambridge, she competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and was elected president of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for the 2018 boat race campaign.[6]
Academic career
She is currently an assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical and social implications of human genetic research.[8]
Ιn April 2022, The New York Review of Books published a review by Martschenko and Marcus Feldman that was highly critical of Kathryn Paige Harden's The Genetic Lottery, initiating an exchange of letters to the publication.[9]
