Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law with joint appointments in African American Studies, Sociology, and the Institute for Policy Research. She has written and spoken extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is the author of the award-winning books Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997) and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2002). She is writing a book on the politics of race-based biotechnologies.