Wrye Sententia

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Wrye Sententia is director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics ("CCLE)"), a nonprofit research, policy, and public education center which seeks to advance and protect freedom of thought. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Sententia has guided the CCLE in sponsoring the National Science Foundation’s initiatives aimed at "Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance". In 2002, she provided comments to the President's Council on Bioethics on the topic of cognitive enhancement technologies and in October 2004 debated members of the Council on the democratic values of the US Declaration of Independence in relation to emergent enhancement biotechnologies and human freedom.

She has a Ph.D from the University of California, Davis. She has written and spoken extensively on how novel technologies (particularly neurotechnology) will impact on human freedom. She has appeared frequently on radio and television, and has given invited lectures at numerous universities.