Reimagining healthy sexual development for youth in foster care
At this year’s Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth Conference, we are “thinking outside of the systems” we exist within. Conference sessions will discuss the current landscape of sexual & reproductive health, and reimagine what our systems would look like if they were truly made to serve all youth in foster care. Dr. Khiara M. Bridges headlines as keynote speaker, and session topics include: the state of abortion, alternative birthing experiences, culturally specific programming & models of care, young parenthood, and more!
This conference is made possible in part through a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to the National Center for Youth Law to support the Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth (RHEP). We are grateful for their support.
The 2023 conference will take place virtually on February 16th, 2023.
Dr. Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. She is also the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). She is a coeditor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press.
She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically trained ballet dancer.
For more about Professor Bridges, click here.
9-9:10 Artistic Offering
9:10-10:30 Keynote and Youth Panel
10:45-11:45 Breakout Sessions I
12:00-1:00 Breakout Sessions II
1:05-1:15 Artistic Offering
1:15-2:35 Award Presentation and Lunch Panel
2:50-3:50 Breakout Sessions III
4:00-5:00 Breakout Sessions IV
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