Online RSVP — Reflecting on Reproductive Justice

a public symposium on global and local advocacy

September 5–7, 2024

Featuring speakers Loretta J. Ross, Rockie Gonzalez, Cynthia Ingar and Kimberly Mutcherson and representatives from local organizations Right By You, MO Ho Justice, Abortion Action Missouri, Medical Students for Choice, Jamaa Birth Village, Missouri Abortion Fund, St. Louis Doula Project and more.

 

Pre-symposium

Thursday, September 5
Student event + public film screening of Aftershock

Symposium

Conversations around reproductive justice, health and rights. Symposium events take place in the Clark-Fox Forum in Hillman Hall, on the WashU campus. Click this link for the location on Google Maps.

Friday, September 6
2 pm – Kimberly Mutcherson, “Reproductive Justice Beyond Abortion: Potential Life as a Tool of Subordination”  
Roma Schaefer Nooter Lecture for the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, also sponsored by the School of Law’s Law, Identity, & Culture Initiative and its Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series

4 pm – Conversation 1: Engaging with Rights Not to Have Children

  • Maggie Olivia, Senior Manager of Public Policy and Abortion Storyteller, Abortion Action Missouri
  • Pamela Merritt, Executive Director, Medical Students for Choice
  • Mark Valentine, Vice President of Missouri Abortion Fund
  • Conversation facilitated by Susan Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis

5:30 pm – Opening reception

Saturday, September 7
9:30 am – Breakfast  

10 am – Conversation 2: Engaging with Rights to Have Children and Form Families

  • Phillis Troupe, St. Louis Doula Project
  • Cynthia Ingar, Hampi Warmi (Peru)
  • Okunsola M. Amadou, Founder and CEO, Jamaa Birth Village
  • Stephanie Kraft Sheley, Project Director & Founder, Right By You
  • Conversation facilitated by Jessica Levy, Associate Professor of Practice, Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis

11:30 am – Lunch break (lunch registrations are now full)

1 pm – Conversation 3: Engaging with Rights to Parent Across Movements  

  • Rockie Gonzalez, Deputy Director, Austin Justice Coalition
  • Indigo Hann, Co-founder and Healing Justice Lead, MO Ho Justice; Integrated Healing Coach, The Bullet Related Injury Clinic
  • Conversation facilitated by Shanti Parikh, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and African and African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis

3 pm – Conversation 4: The Future of Reproductive Justice with Loretta Ross

  • Facilitated by symposium co-conveners Seanna Leath (Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty, at Washington University in St. Louis) and Zakiya Luna (Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis)

Free and open to the public. Symposium events take place in the Clark-Fox Forum in Hillman Hall, on the WashU campus. Click this link for the location on Google Maps.

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We’re glad to have you join us! Please let us know which events and sessions you plan to attend.

 

 

Kimberly Mutcherson’s talk is the Roma Schaefer Nooter Lecture for the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, also sponsored by the School of Law’s Law, Identity, & Culture Initiative and its Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series