Keynote Speaker

Dr. Dorothy Roberts

Dr. Roberts’ pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).

She is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.

2019 Susan Hill Award Recipient

Faulkner Fox

Author, teacher, and activist Faulkner Fox will be honored for her for decades-long commitment to voter rights and the full enfranchisement of all North Carolinians.