Panel: Reproductive Justice and Domestic Violence: Health Issues for Women of Color
Two activist scholars will be speaking as part of a panel discussion on “Reproductive Justice and Domestic Violence: Health Issues for Women of Color” moderated by Ann Ferguson, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 12:00 in Campus Center room #162-75.
Tameka Gillum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Community Health Studies will speak on “Negative Health Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence and Services for Women of Color Survivors” and Angela Moreno, social justice activist, doula, and coordinator of the National Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant and Birthing Women will give a talk entitled “Out of Necessity: Women of Color and the Movement for Reproductive Justice”. This event is sponsored by the UMass Amherst Women's Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Center for Research and Education in Women's Health in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences as well as the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Gillum’s research interests are in exploring and addressing intimate partner violence within racial/ethnic and sexual minority populations. She is a community psychologist who conducts community-based research and utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods in her research endeavors. Moreno is a Chicana-Lebanese-American activist who was born and raised in the borderlands of southeast Arizona. She has worked with, and served on, several women’s organizational boards and she is currently the coordinator of the Summit to Ensure the Health and Humanity of Pregnant Women.
Gillum and Moreno are speaking as part of the 2006-2007 Women’s Studies Feminist Foundations: Challenges for an Integrative Feminist Analysis Series. The 2006-2007 series is funded in part by a Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Grant from the UMass Center for Teaching.