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Assistant Professor and Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Alumni Relations Lynn Roberts was selected as the recipient of the 2021 Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award by the Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the APHA in recognition of her longstanding commitment and body of work dedicated to sexual and reproductive health in the U.S.
As an emeritus board member of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Dr. Roberts helped to organize and mobilize the reproductive justice movement that has been advocating for the sexual and reproductive autonomy of women of color and other marginalized people for over 20 years. She is the co-editor and contributing author of Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice Critique (Feminist Press 2017).
Dr. Roberts began her public health advocacy coordinating HIV education programs in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. During the war on drugs, she directed a comprehensive program for substance using women and their families in Harlem and developed and evaluated several HIV and violence prevention programs for youth at a research action center at Hunter College. She transitioned to a professor at CUNY in 1998 and has dedicated her career to teaching social justice activism ever since.
For decades Dr. Roberts has taught the Community Organizing to Advance Health and Social Justice course in our MPH program, with the highest student evaluation accolades.
The Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award award honors individuals who have demonstrated a strong commitment to advocacy on behalf of sexual and reproductive health and rights. It is dedicated to the memory of Felicia Stewart and her vision, commitment, leadership, and advocacy in the field. Stewart’s career included serving as deputy assistant secretary of population affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as co-director of the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy at the University of California, San Francisco.
Roberts will be presented with the award at the APHA Sexual and Reproductive Health Awards Ceremony & Reception on Monday, October 25th at 8:30pm.
