Broadcast Media and Print Journalism
Eben Kirksey is an expert on science and justice.
Journalists from the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Democracy Now, and the BBC, among many other media outlets, have sought him out as an expert.
7:30 Report
In 1998 Eben witnessed a massacre by the Indonesian military in West Papua. Along with other witnesses and survivors, Eben helped host a Citizens Tribunal on the fifteen year anniversary of the Biak Massacre. The findings of the Tribunal were reported with an in-depth feature on ABC’s 7:30 Report, where Eben recounted his harrowing testimony.
Democracy Now
Eben Kirksey solved a murder mystery in West Papua, where American school teachers were shot dead by Indonesian military agents. After the FBI bungled the investigation, Eben partnered with the Indonesian investigative reporter Andreas Harsono to conduct an independent study of the facts. They reported evidence of high level involvement by Indonesia’s security forces. Declassified U.S. government documents showed that Indonesian President Yudhoyono was involved in a cover-up. Amy Goodman invited Eben to discuss his findings on DemocracyNow!
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The Mutant Project
Experiments to create genetically modified people have put the pursuit of scientific fame and fortune ahead of human health and well being. In the United States, the first CRISPR clinical trials contributed to social inequality. As scientists raced ahead to pursue cutting-edge medical breakthroughs in China, unrelenting speed put the lives of children at risk. Eben Kirksey was able to talk with patients who signed up to have the world's first genetically modified babies with CRISPR, plus members of Dr. Jiankui He's laboratory who were involved in the controversial experiment. Human hopes and dreams--the desire to have a healthy child--were also bound up in this story of scientific ambition.
