Dorothy Roberts
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Dorothy Roberts, PhD is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society.
An internationally recognized scholar, public intellectual, and social justice advocate, she has been a leader in transforming public thinking and policy on reproductive freedom, child welfare, and bioethics.
She author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare; Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century; and Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families —And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
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