In The Light of Birth 2018 With Activist Loretta Ross!

What is Birth Justice? Activist Loretta Ross is shedding light on this topic!  Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Hampshire College in Women's Studies for the 2017-2018 academic year teaching "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump." She was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012, a network founded in 1997 of women of color and allied organizations that organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement.   She is one of the creators of the term "Reproductive Justice" coined by African American women in 1994 following the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. 

She is a nationally-recognized trainer on using the transformative power of Reproductive Justice to build a Human Rights movement that includes everyone.  Ms. Ross is an expert on women’s issues: hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. 

Loretta is a rape survivor, was forced to raise a child born of incest, and she is also 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 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.    

Denise Bolds is the producer/host of In The Light of Birth 2018. She is Bold Doula. Denise can be reached at 845-797-4177 denisebolds@gmail.com www.BoldDoula.com