Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is an endowed professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. A specialist on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare, she is the author of more than 100 articles and five books, including her latest, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Roberts is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.