Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader Loretta Ross will serve as keynote speaker on April 17 for the Women’s Studies Program 31st Annual Conference on Women in Higher Education.
The conference, sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program is part of a three-day celebration of 34 years of academic excellence provided by the Women’s Studies Program at Texas Tech University. The Conference runs April 16-18 in meeting rooms on the upper level of the Student Union Building, including the Matador room where Ms Ross will give her public address at 1p on Friday, April 17.
Loretta Ross is an expert on women’s issues, racism, and human rights. Her work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this transforms social change.
Ross is a nationally-recognized women's rights and human rights leader. She was a co-founder and the National Coordinator, from 2005 to 2012, of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a network of women of color and allied organizations that organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement.
Ross is a co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and author of “The Color of Choice” chapter in Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She has written extensively on the history of African American women and reproductive justice activism and is a member of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices. Ross appears regularly in major media outlets about the issues of our day.
Ross is a rape survivor, was forced to raise a child born of incest, and is a survivor of sterilization abuse. She is a model of how to survive and thrive despite the traumas that disproportionately affect low-income women of color. She is a nationally-recognized trainer on using the transformative power of Reproductive Justice to build a Human Rights movement that includes everyone.
Ross serves as a consultant for Smith College, collecting oral histories of feminists of color for the Sophia Smith Collection which also contains her personal archives.
She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law degree awarded in 2003 from Arcadia University and a second honorary doctorate degree awarded from Smith College in 2013. She is pursuing a PhD in Women’s Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother.
The Women’s Studies Program is a part of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement.
For more information on the complete conference schedule and the registration form, visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/AWHE_2015.php
CONTACT: Tricia Earl, Unit Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-4335, or patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
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Posted:
3/3/2015
Originator:
Patricia Earl
Email:
patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu
Department:
Women's Studies Program
Event Information
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Date: 4/17/2015
Location:
Matador Room, Student Union Bldg.
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