AZIZA AHMED
416 Huntington Ave • Boston, Massachusetts 02115 (617) 373 – 3250
[email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS Northeastern University School of Law Professor of Law, 2016 – Present Associate Professor of Law, 2013 – 2016 Assistant Professor of Law, 2010 – 2013 Courses Taught: Property Law, Global Health Law, Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights Additional Teaching Interests: Criminal Law, Evidence, Public Health Law, Health Law, Health Regulation, Food and Drug Law, Human Rights, Science and the Law, Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences Affiliated Faculty, 2010-Present Princeton University Law and Public Affairs Fellow and Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018 Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Biotechnology, and Bioethics Visiting Scholar, Spring Semester, 2014 Harvard School of Public Health Research Associate, 2009 - 2010 EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley School of Law Harvard Law School (Berkeley-Harvard Exchange Program, 2006-2007) J.D., 2007 Honors: Orlando Letelier / Roni Moffit Scholarship Recipient for Human Rights Work with a Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Al-Falah Scholarship Activities: Law Students for Choice, California Asylum Representation Clinic Harvard School of Public Health S.M. (Masters of Science, Population and International Health), 2003 Thesis: Health and Human Rights of Children Engaging in Transactional Sex in Jamaica Grants: David Rockefeller Center for Latin America and the Caribbean Summer Grant 1
Activities: Women, Gender, and Health Interdepartmental Working Group, Working Group on Reproductive Health and Rights, Co-founded Student Working Group on Reproductive Health Emory University B.A. (Women’s Studies), 2000 Honors: John W. Gordon Stipe Society for Creative Scholars, Emory Student Leadership Program, Emory University's Ethics in Public Policy and the Professions: Ethics and Servant Leadership Program. SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH BOOKS FEMINIZING RISK: CONTESTING LEGAL progress)
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ARTICLES Race and Assisted Reproduction: Making Families After Loving v. Virginia, FORDHAM LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) Abortion in a Post-Truth Moment: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin, TEXAS LAW REVIEW SEE ALSO (2017) Adjudicating Risk: AIDS, Crime, and Culpability, 3 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 627 (2016) Criminal Laws on Sex Work and HIV: A Mapping, 93 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 355 (2016) (co-authored with Sienna Baskin and Anna Forbes) Trafficked?:AIDS, Criminal Law, and the Politics of Measurement, 70 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 96 (2015) Informed Decision Making on Abortion: Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Clinics, and the First Amendment, 43 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE, AND ETHICS 51-58 (2015) “Exploitation Creep” and Development: A Response to Janie Chuang, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW UNBOUND (2015) Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence, 41 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND MEDICINE 85-118 (2015) (peer-reviewed) HIV, Violence Against Women, and the Criminal Law Interventions, CUNY LAW REVIEW FOOTNOTES FORUM (2014) “Rugged Vaginas” and “Vulnerable Rectums”: the Sexual Identity, Epidemiology, and Law
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of the Global HIV Epidemic 26 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW AND GENDER 1-57 (2013) • Winning paper: American Association of Law Schools (AALS) New Voices in Gender Studies Competition 2013 Underneath Her Pantsuit: A Reflection on Hanna Rosin’s Book End of Men, 93 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW ANNEX 38-43 (2013) “We Have the Right Not to Be Rescued...”: When Anti-Trafficking Programmes Undermine the Health and Well-Being of Sex Workers, 1 ANTI-TRAFFICKING REVIEW 149-165 (2012) (with Meena Seshu) (peer-reviewed) When Men Are Harmed: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Torture at Abu Ghraib, 11 UCLA JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC AND NEAR EASTERN LAW 1-19 (2012) HIV and Women: Incongruent Laws, Criminal Consequences, 6 YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 32-42 (2011) Feminism, Power, and Sex Work in the Context of HIV/AIDS: Consequences for Women’s Health, 34 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND GENDER 226-258 (2011) The Value of Critique and Distributive Analysis to Addressing the Needs of Sex Workers in the Context of HIV: A Response to Libby Adler’s “Gay Rights and Lefts,” H ARVARD CIVIL RIGHTS – CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW (2011), http://harvardcrcl.org/cr-cl-presents-acolloquium-gay-rights-and-lefts-rights-critique-and-the-distributive-analysis/ Criminalising Consensual Sexual Behaviour in the Context of HIV: Consequences, Evidence and Leadership, 6 GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH S357-S369 (2011) (with Margo Kaplan, Eszter Kismodi, and Alison Symington) (peer-reviewed) Protecting HIV Positive Women’s Human’s Rights: Recommendations for the Obama Administration 17 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATTERS 127-134 (2009) (with Catherine Hanssens and Brook Kelly) (peer-reviewed) Dual Subordination: Muslim Sexuality in Secular and Religious Legal Discourse in India, Paper 7 MUSLIM WORLD JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1-29 (2007) (peer-reviewed) BOOK CHAPTERS Criminalization: A Conversation with Janet Halley, in BEYOND VIRTUE AND VICE: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF GENDER, SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION (Mindy Roseman and Ali Miller eds., 2017) (peer-reviewed) (forthcoming) Global Health Governance, Harm-Reduction, and Trafficking, in SHAPING THE DEFINITION OF TRAFFICKING IN THE PALERMO PROTOCOL (Prabha Kotiswaran ed., 2017) (peer-reviewed) Women’s Rights Post-Bandung, in BANDUNG, GLOBAL HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW:
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CRITICAL PASTS AND PENDING FUTURES (Vasuki Nessiah, Luis Eslava, and Michael Fakhri eds., 2017) No Way Out: The Dual Subordination of Muslim Women in Indian Legal Culture, in SELFDETERMINATION AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES (Chitra Raghavan & James P. Levine eds., 2012) (peer-reviewed) (reprint) BOOK REVIEWS Book Review of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Sex Work by Kimberly Hoang, Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City by Christine Chin, and Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai by Svati Shah, 42(1) SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY 281- 284 (2016) TRADE AND MAGAZINE Think Again: Prostitution, FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE 74-79 (2014) Sex and HIV Disclosure, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: HUMAN RIGHTS 11-13 (2011) (with Beri Hull) PRESENTATIONS KEYNOTES, PLENARY PRESENTATIONS, AND PLENARY PANELS Harvard Kennedy School of Government, featured speaker, Science and Technology Studies Summer School, Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence (July 2014) Law and Society, plenary panelist, Measures and Mismeasures of LGBT Equality (May 2014) Concordia University, featured speaker, HIV//AIDS Community Lecture Series, HIV and Anti-Trafficking Initiatives, Montreal, Canada (March 2014) University of Toronto, featured speaker, Women and Gender Studies Institute Research Seminar, Epidemiology, Identity, and HIV, Toronto, Canada (November 2013) International AIDS Conference, plenary panelist, International AIDS Conference, Stigma, Discrimination, and the Law, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 2013) ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Princeton University, Law and Public Affairs Seminar, featured speaker, Risk: Feminism, Science, and AIDS, Princeton, NJ (March 2018)
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Cornell University School of Law, Symposium on Transnational Feminism, invited panelist, Transnational Organizing on Women’s Health, Ithaca, NY (March 2018) Boston College School of Law, Interdisciplinary Human Rights Seminar, invited speaker, Human Rights Movements for Women’s Health, Boston, MA (February 2018) Fordham Law School, Symposium on Loving v. Virginia, invited panelist, Race and Reproduction: Making Families After Loving v. Virginia, New York, NY (November 2017) Emory Law School, faculty colloquium, Risk: Feminism, Science, and AIDS (November 2017) Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Biotechnology, and Bioethics, featured speaker, Health Law Workshop, “Dead But Not Disabled”: The Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition (October 2017) Boston University School of Law, guest lecture, Race, Crime, and Gender, Science and Criminal Law: The Case of Purvi Patel (October 2017) Harvard Law School, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy Biotechnology, and Bioethics, invited speaker, Health Law Year in Review, Cambridge, MA (January 2017) Boston University School of Law Symposium Critical Race Theory and the Health Sciences, invited speaker, Gender, Race, and the Health Sciences, Boston, MA (January 2017)(upcoming) Boston University School of Law, invited speaker, If/When/How Lecture and Discussion, Floating Lungs: The Law, Science and Politics of Infanticide, Boston, MA (November 2016)(upcoming) Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown Gender and the Law Journal Symposium, invited speaker, Floating Lungs: The Law, Science and Politics of Infanticide, Washington, DC (November 2016) American Public Health Association, invited panelist, Critical Public Health: Rights, Histories, and Pedagogy, Denver, CO (November 2016) Western New England School of Law, faculty colloquium, Floating Lungs: The Law, Science and Politics of Infanticide, Springfield, MA (October 2016) Law and Society, panelist, Critical Perspectives on Reproductive Justice: From Activism to the Academy, New Orleans, LA (June 2016) Rutgers, New Brunswick, panelist, A Workshop on the Fetus, Floating Lungs, New Brunswick, NJ (May 2016)
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Duke Law School, commentator, Culp Colloquium (May 2016) University of Texas, Austin, panelist, Human Rights and Inequality, Criminalization and the Right to Health (April 2016) International Social and Economic Rights Project, invited panelist, Criminal Law and Public Health, New Delhi, India (March 2016) Harvard Kennedy School, featured speaker, Risk: Feminism and AIDS, Science and Technology Studies Circle Speaker Series, Cambridge, MA (March 2016) Eastern Sociological Association, panelist, Author Meets Reader Panel for Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle Over the Antisodomy Law in India, Boston, MA (March 2016) United Nations Women, invited panelist, Laws and Policies on Women, Girls, and HIV, Expert Meeting, New York, NY (February 2016) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Reproductive Justice Seminar, U.S. Conditions on Foreign Assistance for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA (February 2016) Boston University School of Law, invited panelist, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Public Health and Privacy, Boston, MA (February 2016) University of Wisconsin, Madison, roundtable, South Asian Studies Conference, Sex Work in South Asia, Wisconsin, Madison (October 2015) Law and Society, invited participant, Roundtable on Violence Against Women, Seattle, WA (May 2015) Law and Society, panelist, Governance Feminism, Seattle, WA (May 2015) Duke Law School, presentation, Trafficking and Indicators, Durham, NC (May 2015) American University Washington College of Law, Faculty Colloquium, Global Governance on Health: Trafficking and Indicators, Washington, DC (April 2015) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Sexuality and the Law, Trafficking, HIV, and Women’s Health, Cambridge, MA (April 2015) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Reproductive Justice Seminar, Trafficking, Cambridge, MA (March 2015) Temple Law School, invited presentation, International Law Colloquium Series, Global Governance on Health: Trafficking and Indicators, Philadelphia, PA (February 2015) Harvard Law School, invited panelist, Teaching Law in Social Context, Buck v. Bell:
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Contextualizing Public Health, Cambridge, MA (February 2015) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, invited panelist, “Author Meets Critic” on Svati Shah’s book Street Corner Secrets, Amherst, MA (February 2015) University of California Los Angeles Law School, invited speaker, Advanced Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Indicators, and HIV, Los Angeles, CA (February 2015). Harvard Law School, panel presentation, Governance Feminism Workshop, Feminism and HIV, Cambridge, MA (January 2015) Emory University School of Law, panel presentation, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative & Feminist and Legal Theory Project, Feminist Technocracy and Violence Against Women, Atlanta, GA (January 2015) United Nations Development Programme, invited presentation, Follow-Up Meeting to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, New York, NY (November 2015) University of Brussels, invited panelist, Workshop on Abortion, presentation on Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence in the United States, Brussels, Belgium (April 2015) Suffolk Law School, guest lecture, Trafficking, Poverty and the Law, Boston, MA (April 2015) Northeastern University School of Law, invited presentation, Social and Economic Rights Project, Trafficking, Indicators, and HIV, Boston, MA (February 2015). King’s College London, invited presentation, Global Governance on Health and Trafficking London, UK (April 2014) Emory University School of Law, panel presentation, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative & Feminist and Legal Theory Project, Trafficking, Indicators, and HIV, Atlanta, GA (December 2014) New York University School of Law, panel presentation, Measurement and Data in the Governance of Illicit Activities, Trafficking, Indicators, and HIV, New York, NY (November 2014) National Black Law Students Association, invited presentation, Being a Student of Color in Law School (October 2014) National Lawyers Guild, invited panelist, Sex Work and Feminism, Chicago, IL (September 2014) Yale Law School, invited panelist, How Healthy is the First Amendment?, Science and
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Democracy, New Haven, CT (October 2014) Law and Society, paper presentation, Expertise and Empirical Evidence as Movement Strategies, Minneapolis, MN (May 2014) Law and Society, discussant, Critical Gender Perspectives on HIV Criminalization, Minneapolis, MN (May 2014) Suffolk University School of Law, presentation, Documentary “Roe at Risk,” Boston, MA (April 2014) Boston University, panelist, Women’s Liberation Conference, Anti-Trafficking Initiatives and HIV, Boston, MA (March 2014) University of Miami, invited presentation, CONVERGE!, Feminism, Sex Work, and Trafficking, Miami, FL (February 2014) American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, paper presentation, Winning Papers of the New Voices in Gender Studies Competition, New York, NY (January 2014) Harvard Law School, invited panelist, Institute for Global Law and Policy Advanced Workshop, “Death of a Prisoner”: Reimagining Guantanamo Bay, Cambridge, MA (June 2013) Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, panelist, Law, Identity, and HIV, Milan, Italy (June 2013) Harvard Law School, featured speaker, Institute for Global Law and Policy and the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard Kennedy School: Facts and Futures: Expertise Between Science and Law, Human Rights, Epidemiology and Law: The CoProduction of Identity and Expertise in the Global HIV Epidemic, Cambridge, MA (April 2013) American Bar Association invited panelist, Women’s Rights and the Rule of Law, Washington, DC (March 2013) United Nations Special Event on the Millennium Development Goals, discussant, Freedom From Violence for Every Women and Girl: A Priority for the Post-2015 Agenda sponsored by UN Women and the Government of Finland, New York, NY (September 2013) Harvard Law School, invited panelist, Petrie-Flom Center: Reproductive Rights Around the Globe, Medical Evidence in Law and Policy Making: A Comparative Perspective, Cambridge, MA (November 2013) Emory University School of Law, panelist, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative & Feminist and Legal Theory Project on Sex and Reproduction, Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence: Reimagining the Feminist Health Movement, Atlanta, 8
GA (November 2013) Harvard Law School, featured speaker, Students for Reproductive Justice, Trafficking and Women’s Health, Cambridge, MA (November 2013) Rutgers University-Camden, panelist, Beyond Roe, Medical Expertise and Evidence in Abortion Jurisprudence, Camden, NJ (October 2013) Yale Law School, invited presentation, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence, New Haven, CT (October 2013) Boston University School of Law, guest lecture, Feminist Legal Theory, Trafficking, HIV, and Women’s Health, Boston, MA (October 2013) Boston University School of Law, invited presentation, Gender Law and Policy Colloquium, Boston, MA (September 2013) Law and Society, panelist, HIV, Epidemiology, and Identity, Boston, MA (May 2013) Law and Society, moderator, convener, and discussant, Race, Science, and the Law, Boston, MA (May 2013) Boston University School of Public Health, invited panelist, Group on Reproductive Health and Human Rights, Criminal Law and HIV Transmission, Boston, MA (April 2013) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Critical Theory Seminar, Identity and HIV, Cambridge, MA (April 2013) SUNY Binghamton, invited lecture, Department of History, Women’s Studies, and Sociology, HIV, Feminism, and Identity, Binghamton, New York (March 2013) Western New England School of Law, faculty colloquium, “Rugged Vaginas” and “Vulnerable Rectums”: the Sexual Identity, Epidemiology, and Law of the Global HIV Epidemic, Springfield, MA (March 2013) Harvard School of Public Health, invited panelist, HIV and Criminal Law, Boston, MA (February 2013) Widner University School of Law, invited panelist, The Use of Public Health Evidence in Abortion Jurisprudence, Wilmington, DE (February 2013) University of Pennsylvania Law School, presentation, Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference, Human Rights, Epidemiology, and Law in the Global HIV Epidemic Philadelphia, PA (January 2013) University of Wisconsin Law School, panelist, ClassCrits Conference, Identity Formation in
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International Law and Development, Madison, WI (November 2012) Harvard Law School, featured presentation, Harvard Law School (HLS) Black Law Students Association, HLS Law Students for Reproductive Justice, HLS African Law Association, HLS Women’s Law Association Harvard Law School, Human Rights, Epidemiology and Identity the Global Response to HIV, Cambridge, MA (November 2012) Suffolk Law School, presentation, Northeast People of Color Conference, Identity and HIV, Boston, MA (October 2012) McGill University, panelist, Stateless Law? The Future of a Discipline, Identity as Governance: HIV and Legal Advocacy, Montreal, Canada (September 2012) American University, Cairo, panel presentation, International Law and the Periphery, Feminism, Trafficking, and HIV, Cairo, Egypt (February 2012). Emory University School of Law, panelist, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative & Feminist and Legal Theory Project, HIV and Identity in International Human Rights Advocacy, Atlanta, GA (September 2012) University of Maryland, panelist, Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Identity and HIV, College Park, MD (March 2012) University of Michigan, invited panelist, Conference on Law and Human Rights in Global History, Feminist Engagement with Human Rights, Ann Arbor, MI (March 2012) Cornell University, featured speaker, Department of South Asian Studies, The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Programs on the Health of Sex Workers in India, Ithaca, NY (March 2012) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Criminal Law and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Cambridge, MA (February 2012) George Washington School of Law, panelist, Feminist Legal Theory Conference, The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Programs on the Health of Sex Workers in India, Washington DC (January 2012) Harvard Law School, guest lecture, Trafficking Seminar, Sex Work and Trafficking: Public Health Approaches, (November 2011) LatCrit Conference, panelist, Muslims in the United States and India: A Critical Perspective on the Rule of Law, San Diego, CA (October 2011) American University School of Law, panelist, ClassCrits Conference, Feminism, Sex Work, and the President’s Emergency Plan for HIV Relief (PEPFAR) Washington, DC (September 2011)
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Emory University School of Law and Smith College, panelist, Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative & Feminist and Legal Theory Project Workshop Beyond Rights: Vulnerability and Justice, Muslims in the United States and India Post-9/11 Northampton, MA (May 2011) Harvard Law School, presentation, Embedded Bodies Conference, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure, Cambridge, MA (October 2010) American Bar Association, Alternatives to Criminalization of HIV Transmission and Exposure, Washington, DC (October 2010) International AIDS Conference, invited panelist, AIDS2031 Social Drivers Working Group Satellite Session, Social Drivers of the HIV Epidemic, Vienna, Austria (July 2010) Ford Foundation, invited presentation, Meeting on U.S. Southern HIV/AIDS Legal Service Providers, International Trends in HIV/AIDS Law and Policy, New York, NY (July 2010) Ford Foundation and International Development Law Organization, invited presentation, International Consultation on HIV-Related Legal Services and Rights, Domestic Litigation and Legal Strategies on HIV and AIDS, Vienna, Austria (June 2010) University of Baltimore Law School, panelist, Third Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, HIV, Feminism, and Sex Work at the, Baltimore, MD (March 2010) Yale University, presentation, Amnesty International Yale Chapter, Health and Human Rights, New Haven, CT (November 2009) World Health Organization, presentation, Gender Based Violence and HIV, Geneva, Switzerland (October 2009) United Nations Development Program, International Center for Research on Women and AIDS 2031, invited panelist, Sex, Rights, and Law Conference, Women and Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure, Cuernavaca, Mexico (February 2009) Emory University, panelist, Conference on Health and Human Rights, Integration of Gender and Rights into HIV/AIDS Programs in the Caribbean, Atlanta, GA (April 2005) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on Women’s Rights, invited presentation, Abortion, Maternal Mortality, and Reproductive Health in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica (September 2005) Development Alternatives With Women in a New Era, invited panelist, Maternal Mortality and Abortion in Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago at the 20th Anniversary Meeting, Capetown, South Africa (October 2004)
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International Conference on Population and Development Civil Society Meeting, presentation, Challenges with the Abstain, Be Faithful, Condom Model (ABC) of Preventing HIV Transmission, San Juan, PR (June 2004) Children Engaged in Sex Work and Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, panel presentation, Caribbean Studies Association Conference, St. Kitts and Nevis (June 2004). Caribbean Studies Association Conference, panelist, Children Engaged in Sex Work and Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, St. Kitts and Nevis (May 2004) UN Inter-Agency Round Table on HIV/AIDS, invited presentation, UNIFEM, Gender Assessment of HIV/AIDS Programming in the Region, Bridgetown, Barbados (May 2004) Pan American Health Organization, invited presentation, Gender and Health Sector Reform, Health Sector Reform, Gender, and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Washington, DC (2004) ADVISOR / EXPERT United Nations Women (UN Women), Strategic Discussion (2015) United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Meeting on Young Women and Girls and HIV/AIDS (2015) United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Expert Group on Gender, HIV, and Plural Legal Systems (2014) Global Commission on HIV and the Law, Member of the Technical Advisory Group (hosted by the United Nations Development Program) (2009 – 2012) American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, Expert Working Group Meeting on HIV and the Law (2011) GRANTS & AWARDS • • • • • •
Institute for Global Law and Policy Grant, Co-Organizer, Workshop on Critical Perspectives on Human Rights (5,000 USD) (2013) Ford Foundation Grant, Organizer, Critical Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (7,500 USD) (2013) Interdisciplinary Grants in Health Law and Policy, Research and HIV Roundtables, Co Principle Investigator (5,000 USD) (2013) Columbia Law School / Center for Reproductive Rights, Visiting Assistant Professorship, declined (2009) Orlando Letelier/Roni Moffit Scholarship for Human Rights Work (2006) Center for Middle Eastern Studies Al-Falah Scholarship for Research on Islam and Women’s Rights in India (5,000) (2006) 12
WORKSHOPS AND ROUNDTABLES • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Faculty, Madrid, Spain (2016) Emory Law School, Vulnerability and the Human Condition, Sex and Reproduction, Co-organizer, Boston MA (2016) Duke Law School, Culp Colloquium (2016) Duke Law School, Culp Colloquium (2015) Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, Abortion in the 21st Century: Challenges and Achievements (2015) Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University, Gender and Carceral Complexes (2015-2016) Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University, Feminist Theory 2.0: contemporary debates in gender and sexuality (2014-2015) Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University, Sexual Citizenship Collaborative Research Cluster, Boston, MA (2013-2014) Law and Society Early Career Workshop, Law and Society, Boston, MA (2013) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Docent (Jr. Faculty) for Science and Technology Studies, Doha, Qatar (2013) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Docent (Jr. Faculty) for Law and Economic Development, Cambridge, MA (2012) Harvard Law School, Governance Feminism Study Group (2012) American University School of Law/Harvard Law School, Anti-Trafficking Roundtable (2010-2014) Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, working group, New Haven, CT (2011-2012) Open Society Institute, Working Group on Forced Sterilization (2010-2012) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Pro-Seminar: Gender in Post-Colonial Legal Orders, Cambridge, MA (2011) American Society for Muslim Advancement, Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, Istanbul, Turkey (2011) Center for Reproductive Rights Junior Faculty and Fellows Luncheon, New York, NY (2011) Yale Law School, Teaching Sexual Rights, New Haven, CT (2010) Harvard School of Public Health, Group on Reproductive Health and Rights (2010-ongoing) Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Providence, RI (2009) PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC SERVICE
SUPERVISION/ADVISING OF PHD STUDENTS • •
Field Supervisor for Harvard Law School S.J.D student, 2016 - 2017 PhD Committee Member for Northeastern Law and Public Policy student, 201113
2014 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS • • • • • • •
Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, co-organized 2015 conference, Boston, MA (2015) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Co-convened Stream: Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Family, Cambridge, MA (2015) Law and Society, Planning Committee for Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network (2015; 2017) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy and Northeastern University School of Law, Co-convened Workshop: Queer Critical Legal Studies (2014) Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy, Co-convened Workshop: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Cambridge, MA (2013) Harvard Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Pro-Seminar Co-Organizer: Economies of Desire, Cambridge, MA (2013) Northeastern University School of Law sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy, Convened Roundtable: Critical Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Boston, MA (2013)
EDITORIAL BOARDS •
Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Editorial Board, 2014 – ongoing
ACADEMIC REFEREE/PEER-REVIEWER American Journal of Law and Medicine (2016), New York University Press (2014, 2016), Palgrave MacMillan (2014), Health and Human Rights (2014), Columbia University Press (2014), Culture, Health, and Sexuality (2014), The Lancet (2013), American Journal of Public Health (2011, 2013), Canadian Journal for Human Rights (2013), Routledge (2013), Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2012; 2013), Global Public Health (2012; 2013), Journal of the International AIDS Society (2012), University of the West Indies Social and Economic Studies (2012), Journal of Homosexuality (2012), Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2010), Reproductive Health Matters (2005; 2015) GRANTS REFEREE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2012), Open Society Institute (2010; 2011), National AIDS Fund (2009) BOARDS & ADVISORY GROUPS • • •
Muslim Justice League, Board Member, 2016 – ongoing American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Board Member, 2015 – ongoing Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Board Member, 2012 – ongoing 14
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Law Student for Reproductive Justice, Academic Advisory Council, • Law Students for Reproductive Justice, HIV Fellowship Selection Committee, 2014 • Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Faculty Judge for Writing Competition, 2011; 2013 Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), Board Member, 2011 – 2014 Best Practices Policy Project, Advisor, 2013 – ongoing UNIVERSITY SERVICE
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Advisory Board for the Humanities Center, 2016 – 2019 Appointments Committee, 2015 – 2016; 2016 – 2017 Center for Health, Law, and Policy Hiring, 2016 – 2017 Admissions Director Hiring, 2016 – 2017 Organizing Committee for Northeastern University Civility Series, 2015 – 2016 Transgender Taskforce, 2014 – 2015; 2015 – 2016; 2016 – 2017 Admissions Committee, 2013 – 2015 (Chair from 2014 – 2015) Student Affairs Committee 2012 – 2013 Curriculum Committee 2011 – 2012 Global Law Committee, 2010 – 2011 Faculty advisor for Law in Social Context Advocacy Projects 2011 – 2012 (Health and Human Rights: Structural Determinants of Health), 2012 – 2013 (HIV and the Law) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM, Cambridge, MA/Namibia, Co-supervision of HLS-Northeastern project on sexual and reproductive health rights of HIV Positive Women in Namibia, January 2010-August 2012 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM, Co-supervision of HLS clinical project reproductive health rights of HIV Positive Women in Namibia, January 2010 – July 2010 WOMEN’S LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY FELLOW, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS, Washington, DC/Global, September 2007 – August 2009 DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES WITH WOMEN IN A NEW ERA (DAWN), Bridgetown, Barbados, Regional Research Coordinator and Country Researcher, August 2003 – October 2005 • Steering Committee Member, August 2004 – August 2005 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN (UNIFEM), Bridgetown, Barbados Consultant: Gender and HIV/AIDS, July 2003 – July 2004
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UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND (UNICEF) & GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS, Bridgetown, Barbados, Consultant: Caribbean Children’s Summit on HIV/AIDS, December 2003 – April 2004 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION (PAHO), Bridgetown, Barbados, Consultant/CoManager: Maternal and Child Health, November 2003 – January 2004 THE SUPPORT COMMITTEE FOR BATTERED WOMEN, THE HOPE PROJECT, Boston, MA, Consultant: Documenting Sex Worker’s Experiences of Violence in Massachusetts, January 2003 – June 2003 PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (PPASA), Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Project Coordinator, July 2000 – June 2001 LOVELIFE HIV/AIDS CAMPAIGN, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, Public Health Consultant, January 2001 – March 2001
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