Women’s History Keynote with Loretta Ross tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. in Miller 1101 Loretta Ross, co-founder and National Coordinator of SisterSong, a Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective will be delivering the Women’s History Month keynote lecture! The title of the talk is “Reproductive Justice and Human Rights: Being Better Together.” From her bio:

“Loretta J. Ross is a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a network founded in 1997 of 80 women of color and allied organizations that work on reproductive justice issues to fulfill a need for a national network that would organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement.

Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants. As part of a 35-year history in social justice activism, between 1996-2004, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia. She taught more than 1 million people about human rights violations in the United States, and helped many social justice activists learn how to use the human rights framework in their work.

She was one of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center in the 1970s. She is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, and the author of “The Color of Choice” chapter in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She has also written extensively on reproductive justice theory and activism.”

Loretta Ross is an incredible and dynamic speaker and a major authority on reproductive justice. The event is sponsored by the Women and Gender Studies program and co-sponsored by SWO, Justice Studies, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Department of Political Science, and Dukes for Choice.