Eighth Applied Legal Storytelling Conference

Professor Ross has devoted her life to pursuing justice for people of color and for women in the United States and throughout the world.  

Her work includes the following:

• Co-founder and National Coordinator of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, an Atlanta-based organization that organizes women of color and allied groups within the reproductive justice movement
• Co-author of three books on reproductive justice
• Author of a forthcoming book on calling in the call out culture
• National Co-Director of the April 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C., an event with more than one million participants
• Founder of the Women of Color Program for the National Organization of Women in the 1980s

Professor Ross is currently a visiting associate professor with Smith College, teaching courses on white supremacy, race and culture in America, human rights, and calling in the calling out culture. Her work at Smith also includes collecting oral histories for feminists of color for Smith’s Sophia Smith Collection.

Professor Ross’s keynote address at this year’s Applied Legal Storytelling Conference will focus on social justice movements and the call out culture—subjects about which she has been featured in The New York Times, Morning Joe, WGBH-Boston, and other national media. This timely address promises to be both compelling and thought-provoking and will include time for questions and answers.

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