January 7, 2024 – Loretta Ross

“Calling In Ourselves”

Loretta J. Ross, Reproductive Justice and Human Rights Advocate, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Northampton, MA

More and more we find ourselves in difficult conversations. In this talk, I will speak to the importance of what I call “integrity intelligence,” how we can prepare ourselves to speak authentically with others across differences and while maintaining our highest integrity.

From 2021: Loretta Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College teaching “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump.” She started her career in the women’s movement in the 1970s, working at the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women, the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture. Her most recent publications are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and Radical Reproductive Justice.

  • Facilitator: Charlene Ball
  • Musician: Craig Rafuse