Placing the past in a conversation with the contemporary medical moment we're experiencing, Cooper Owens addresses the influence and impact of medical racism in reproductive medicine.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is an award-winning author, historian, administrator and reproductive justice advocate. She is the Charles & Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she directs the Humanities in Medicine Program. Dr. Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at The Library Company of Philadelphia. She wrote Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology winner of the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians.

The Exploring Social Justice Series, a program co-sponsored by the American University Library, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, and the Kay Spiritual Life Center, brings to campus exemplary leaders from diverse backgrounds who have advocated for various human rights and social justice issues.