She is currently Editor-at-Large for Strategy and Innovation and the inaugural Columnist of the Future at The Washington Post. From 2019 to 2022, she served as Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe, overseeing the news organization’s opinion coverage and editorial board during two presidential impeachment trials, the 2020 election, the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, the Capitol insurrection, and Boston’s historic 2021 mayoral election. During her tenure, the Globe had two Pulitzer finalists for editorial writing. She is the author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age (Riverhead, 2019), named a top business book by The Financial Times and a best book of the year by National Public Radio.
Bina formerly served in the Obama White House as Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, with a focus on community resilience. She also helped shape national policy on a range of issues from outbreak response to STEM education as the former Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and as a policy advisor to PCAST under President Obama. Since 2011, Bina has taught in the program on science, technology, and society at MIT; she also teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School.
