Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Roberts
Brief Bio
Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, with joint appointments in African American Studies, Sociology, and the Institute for Policy Research. She is an internationally recognized leader in scholarship on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues, focusing on reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is the author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997) and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2002) and a frequent speaker at university campuses, social justice organizations, and other public forums.
Professor Roberts has been a visiting professor at Fordham, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford, a fellow at Harvard University’s Program in Ethics and the Professions and Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies in Trinidad &Tobago, where she conducted research on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, as a board member of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, and on the advisory boards of the Family Defense Center and the Center for Genetics and Society. Her latest book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century, was published in 2011.
