Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice »

Loretta Ross (AUTHOR) has a twenty-five-year history of involvement in the women's movement—both in ending violence against women and promoting reproductive rights—in the United States and internationally. She was active in the Black Nationalist and Civil Rights Movements, conducting research on the far right and anti-abortion violence. She has written extensively on African American women and abortion, and has organized many events for women of color in the reproductive rights movement. Ross is a co-founder of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. Currently, she focuses on the human rights movement and is the founder and executive director of the National Center for Human Rights Education. Elena Gutierrez is in her first year of teaching as an Assistang Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her graduate filed work was on sterilization abuse among Latinas in Los Angeles. She worked with Access, a reproductive rights organization.

Reports, at last, the largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.