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Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at
Northwestern University School of Law, with joint appointments in the
Departments of African American Studies and Sociology (by courtesy),
and a faculty fellow for the Institute for Policy Research at
Northwestern University. She has written and lectured extensively on
the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning
reproduction and child welfare.
She is the author of the award-winning
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty, as well as more than
sixty articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including
Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review. She
serves as a member of the board of directors of the Black Women's
Health Imperative and the National Coalition for Child Protection
Reform. She also serves on a panel of five experts that is overseeing
foster care reform in Washington State. Her current research examines
the concentrated involvement of child welfare agencies in
African-American neighborhoods.
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