Speakers

Lori Andrews is distinguished professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an expert in biotechnologies.

Laura Briggs is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Arizona and author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.

Claudia Castañeda is visiting assistant professor of women and gender studies at Brandeis University and author of Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds.

Wendy Chavkin is professor of clinical population and family health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, director of the Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship, and chair to the Board of Directors of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.

Dana-Ain Davis is associate professor of urban studies at Queens College and author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform.

David Eng is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America.

Sarah Franklin is professor of social studies of biomedicine and associate director of the BIOS Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, director of the graduate program in Culture and Media, director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, and codirector of the Center for Religion and Media.

Michele Goodwin is Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota and founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Bioethics at DePaul College of Law.

Rebecca Haimowitz is a filmmaker and co-director and producer of the documentary film Made In India.

Iris Lopez is associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the City University of New York and author of Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom.

Leith Mullings is distinguished professor of anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center and is author of the recent article "Resistance and Resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Harlem."

Rayna Rapp is professor of anthropology at New York University and author of the award-winning Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America.

Loretta Ross is national coordinator and founding member of SisterSong, a reproductive justice collective.

Lesley Sharp is professor of anthropology at Barnard College, a senior research scientist at the Mailman School of Public Health, and author of Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer.

Vaishali Sinha is a filmmaker and co-director and producer of the documentary film Made In India.

Debora Spar is president of Barnard College and author of The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.

Kalindi Vora is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Faith Wilding is a multidisciplinary artist and chair and professor of performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the art collective subRosa.

Hyla Willis is a faculty member in the Media Arts Department at Robert Morris University and a member of the art collective subRosa.

Rebecca Young is assistant professor of women's studies at Barnard College and author of Sex, Hormones and Hardwiring: Re-thinking the Theory of Brain Organization (forthcoming).