Reproductive Justice
Faculty Speaker Series | SPRING 2020 JANUARY 23, 2020
MARCH 2, 2020
DR. MONICA MCLEMORE “An Uncertain Future – The Way Forward to Ensure Abortion Care, Access, and Reproductive Justice”
THE COMMONS, DIBOLL GALLERY
Hors d’oeuvres will be provided and this event is open to the public
6 pm - Conceiving Equity event which includes a reception featuring poster presentations by Newcomb’s Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health interns
7 pm - Dr. McLemore will deliver Newcomb Institute’s 8th annual Roe v. Wade lecture as part of Conceiving Equity
At the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Monica R. McLemore PhD, MPH, RN, is an associate professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department, a clinician-scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, and a member of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her program of research is focused on understanding the factors that influence the health, wellbeing and livelihood of low-income and women of color, using the intersectional human rights middle range theory called reproductive Justice (RJ). She is on the advisory committee for the Black Mamas Matter Alliance.
FEBRUARY 14, 2020 DR. RACHEL HARDEMAN 9 am - 143 S. LIBERTY ST. Faculty breakfast at Mary Amelia Douglas-Whited Women’s Community Health Education Center
RSVP to Kijuana Yarls at kyarls@tulane.edu.
“Getting to the Root of the Problem and Planting Seeds to Achieve Reproductive Health Equity: The Story of a Black Owned Birth Center.” 12 pm - THE COMMONS, DIBOLL GALLERY Dr. Hardeman will then deliver a lecture as part of Newcomb’s Fridays at Newcomb speaker series Lunch will be served and this talk is open to the public.
Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. She is a reproductive health equity researcher whose research uses the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work at the intersections of health services research and population health. She seeks to improve outcomes for Black birthing people and their babies. These events are supported by the Reproductive Justice Faculty Working Group’s Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Development Grant, Newcomb Institute’s Richard and Donna Esteves Fund for Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health, the Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, and the Mary Amelia Douglas-Whited Women’s Community Health Education Center.
DR. SARU MATAMBANADZO “Why Reproductive Justice Requires Ensuring Access to Gender Affirming Care for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender Non-Conforming Youth” 11:45 am - THE COMMONS, DIBOLL GALLERY
Lunch will be provided
Saru M. Matambanadzo, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Tulane University School of Law in 2010. As the Moise S. Steeg, Jr. Associate Professor of Law, Matambanadzo incorporates her diverse interdisciplinary research interests through law, policy, philosophy, vulnerability theory, and women’s studies, examining questions concerning the ways law and policies facilitate belonging and inclusion or lead to exclusion and marginalization. Matambandzo’s research also spans topics such as feminist legal theory, employment discrimination, animal rights, and food justice. Her publications include writing on legal pedagogy and critical theory, legal sex and trans* identity, legal personhood in historical and contemporary contexts, and pregnancy discrimination against new mothers. RSVP to Clare Daniel, cdaniel5@tulane.edu.
MARCH 23 , 2020 DR. KATHERINE JOHNSON “Adopting v. Resisting New Maternities: State Legislation and Assisted Reproduction” 11:30 am - THE COMMONS, DIBOLL GALLERY
Lunch will be provided
Dr. Katherine Johnson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tulane University. Her research focuses on the sociology of reproduction, and explores themes such as stratified reproduction, postmodern family building, motherhood, and medical and technological interventions into reproduction. Through this work, she has examined a range of reproductive topics: infertility, third-party reproduction, abortion, childbirth, and breastfeeding. For the past several years, she has been carrying out the Working and Nursing Study, which addresses working women’s experiences of breastfeeding visà-vis issues of gender, race, and class in the workplace. She is also currently working on a book entitled: Undoing Motherhood? Assisted Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of US Maternity. Her work has appeared in both academic and practitioner-oriented journals. RSVP to Clare Daniel, cdaniel5@tulane.edu.
APRIL 20, 2020 DR. MELISSA GILLIAM “Designing for Adolescent Health” 12 pm - THE COMMONS, DIBOLL GALLERY Lunch will be provided
Dr. Melissa Gilliam is the Ellen H. Block Professor of Health Justice and Vice Provost at the University of Chicago. Her clinical focus is in pediatric and adolescent gynecology and family planning. Dr. Gilliam is the founder and director of Ci3, a research center at the University of Chicago that seeks to improve the health, education, and wellbeing of adolescents, in particular those marginalized by class, race, and sexual orientation. Ci3 uses participatory research methods including games, storytelling, and design. RSVP to Clare Daniel, cdaniel5@tulane.edu.