Loretta Ross started her career in the women’s movement in the 1970s, working at the D.C.

Rape Crisis Center, NOW (the National Organization for Women), SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and the National Black Women’s Health Project.

She is one of the co-creators of the Reproductive Justice framework in 1994, and has lectured and written extensively on reproductive justice issues, human rights, racism, appropriate whiteness, diversity issues, and violence against women.

She is the former director of the first rape crisis center in the U.S. in the 1970s, and is presently writing a book on African American women in the abortion rights movement entitled Black Abortion .

She is the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice , a 30-year history of women of color in the movement to protect women’s bodily autonomy and freedom.

She was the Co-Director of the historic 2004 March for Women’s Lives, the biggest protest in U.S. history, with 1.15 million participants.

She has worked to deprogram white supremacists in the hate movement (see Los Angeles Times Up From Hatred/Floyd Cochran), and works to build a U.S. based human rights movement focused on human rights violations in the United States.

Ross has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," National Geographic Channel, and "The Charlie Rose Show.”

She has been quoted as an expert in the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and many other newspapers and magazines.

She is a member of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices.

She has worked with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College since 2003 helping to collect oral histories of feminists of color.

She has received honorary doctorate degrees from Smith College and Arcadia University.

She holds a B.A. in Women's Studies from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.