Marlene Fried

Biography
Marlene Gerber Fried, professor of philosophy and Faculty Director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program -- a program for reproductive rights education and activism, received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Her scholarship and teaching is focused primarily on abortion rights and access, reproductive and sexual rights and health, and legal theory. She edited, From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming A Movement, is co-author with Jael Silliman, Loretta Ross and Elena Gutiérrez of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, November, 2004 (awarded the Myers Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and co-author of the chapter on abortion in the 2005 edition of Our Bodies Ourselves. She is a long-time reproductive rights activist and was the founding president and continues to serve on the board of the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. She also works on an international abortion advocacy project with the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights. She was the interim president of Hampshire College in 2010-2011. While on sabbatical during the 2012-2013 academic year, she was a Visiting Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School.

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