The panel will be a practical and forthright discussion about reproductive rights and strategies for safeguarding rights and resources in Connecticut and across the country. Scholars and practitioners will share critical insights with our communities.
Loretta J. Ross is an academic, feminist, and activist who advocates for reproductive justice, especially among women of color. She is an associate professor of the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Ross’s most recent book, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with those you’d Rather Cancel, has already garnered much acclaim.
Lina Maria-Murillo is an assistant professor in Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies and History at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include borderlands, women's health and reproductive justice, Latina/o/x studies, and social justice movements. She recently published her book, Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
Emma Brown-Bernstein is an attorney in the parent attorney division of the Fulton County Public Defender office. She has worked closely with other attorneys over the past year in cautious anticipation of the new administrator to better prepare and guide largely immigrant families in the region.
Moderated by Alice M Miller, Miller is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and the Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Yale School of Public Health and a Lecturer in Global Affairs at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. An expert in gender, sexuality, health and international human rights, Miller previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was faculty director of the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development, and at Columbia University, where she was co-director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights. She holds a B.A. from Harvard and a J.D. from University of Washington School of Law.