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Virtual Keynote Conversation between Loretta J. Ross and Carrie N. Baker facilitated by Dr. Carly Thomsen (GSFS)

“Abortion and Childbirth in a Post-Roe World:” by Carrie N. Baker

“Beyond Abortion: Reproductive Futurism:” by Loretta J. Ross.

Loretta J. Ross is an Associate Professor at Smith College. An activist, public intellectual, and scholar, she started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s. She worked for organizations such as the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism. 

Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D. is the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Chair of American Studies and a professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her scholarly research centers on the intersections of gender and race in law and policy, focusing in particular on sexual harassment, sex trafficking, and reproductive health, rights and justice. She is a regular writer and contributing editor at Ms. magazine, where she serves as co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars, and she has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Massachusetts). She is co-editing a forthcoming book, Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community (Lever Press, 2022), with Aviva Dove-Viebahn.

Stay tuned for a lecture focused on global reproductive justice organized by IGS, GSFS, and Chellis House: Feminist Resource Center for the Juana Gamero de Coca Day of Learning. This event will be part of the Gensler Symposium.