University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
About Dr. Bridges
Dr. Khiara M. Bridges is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the “Harvard Law Review,” “Stanford Law Review,” “Columbia Law Review,” “California Law Review,” “NYU Law Review,” and “Virginia Law Review,” among others. She is also the author of three books—“Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization” (2011), “The Poverty of Privacy Rights” (2017), and “Critical Race Theory: A Primer” (2019). She is a coeditor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press.
She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. While in law school, she was a teaching assistant for the former Dean, David Leebron (torts), as well as for the late E. Allan Farnsworth (contracts). She was a member of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically trained ballet dancer.
Dr. Bridges did not disclose any conflicts of interest for this workshop.