Who is Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges?
Khiara Bridges is an American law professor and anthropologist. She specializes in the intersectionality of race, reproductive justice, and law. Furthermore, Khiara has written quite a number of books but is best known for her book, “Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization”. In this book, she argues that race and…
Khiara Bridges is an American law professor and anthropologist. She specializes in the intersectionality of race, reproductive justice, and law.
Furthermore, Khiara has written quite a number of books but is best known for her book, “Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization”.
In this book, she argues that race and class largely affect the prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal experiences of women.
Who is Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges?
Currently, Khiara Bridges is a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law.
She graduated from Spelman College where she studied sociology as a valedictorian in 1999, went on to receive her Juris Doctorate degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2002 and then graduated with distinction from Columbia University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in 2008.
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization, The Poverty of Privacy Rights and Critical Race Theory are a few books written by Bridges.
Before becoming a professor, Khiara Bridges worked in Atlanta as a counsellor at the Feminist Women’s Health Center. She also worked as a reporter for a new paper agency, a teaching assistant, a Kent Scholar and was also a member of the Columbia Law Review.
Bridges is currently trending on the Internet for having called out a fellow lawmaker Joshua David Hawley as the United States sits to review abortion rights.
To add to her numerous achievements Bridges is fluent in two extra languages; Arabic and Spanish and is a classic ballet dancer.
