Wythe Marschall, Senior Research Project Manager of Invest NYC SDG Initiative

Wythe's research has examined how corporations, activists, and publics imagine social and technical solutions to ecological crises, with a focus on agriculture. His dissertation, Green-Collar Dreams: An Ethnographic Study of Vertical Farming Startups in New York City, 2016–2019, examines the rise of novel CEA startups and, in the process, unearths contradictions in entrepreneurial visions for a new, green phase of capitalism.
Previously, Wythe wrote the popular YouTube show Crash Course: History of Science; co-founded the Biodesign Challenge; lectured in the English Department of Brooklyn College, CUNY; taught science fiction and the history of the life sciences at Harvard; curated art-and-science exhibitions in Brooklyn, and worked in health and wellness advertising. He holds a B.A. in literature from Bennington College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College, CUNY.
Wythe can be reached at wm2251@stern.nyu.edu