For the past twenty years, Tania Simoncelli has designed advocacy strategies and policy solutions to address complex issues at the intersection of science, technology, law and ethics. In 2017, Simoncelli joined the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as Director of Science Policy, where her work focused on enhancing public support for science and building an initiative to promote patient-driven disease research at scale. Previous roles include positions at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2013, Simoncelli was named by the journal Nature as "one of 10 people who mattered" for her work in spearheading the ACLU's successful Supreme Court case challenging the patenting of human genes. She holds a B.A. in Biology and Society from Cornell University and an M.S. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley.