Lina Zeldovich

Lina Zeldovich grew up in a dissident family of Soviet scientists and learned English as a second language in her twenties as an immigrant New Yorker. Now an award-winning journalist, author, speaker, and Columbia Journalism School alumna, she has published stories about health, medicine and the environment in Popular Science, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and other outlets. Her upcoming book, "The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure was Nearly Lost and Why it Will Rescue us When Antibiotics Fail," about an alternative to antibiotic-resistant infections will be released from St. Martin’s Press in October 2024. She is also the author of "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health."