Two Honors for PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts has been selected to receive the Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award. She will be honored in November at the society's 2016 annual meeting, the North American Forum on Family Planning, in Denver, Colorado.

Roberts has also been named to Harvard Law’s Women Inspiring Change list for 2016. The Third Annual Harvard Law International Women’s Day Portrait Exhibit showcases the astounding contributions of women around the world to the areas of law and policy. The honorees were nominated by Harvard Law students, faculty, or staff.

Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and a professor of Africana studies. She is also the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor and the founding director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society. Roberts is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of books on topics including constitutional law, First Amendment law, and women and the law.

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