Loretta Ross is a founder of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a network created in 1997 consisting of 80 women of color and allied organizations that work on reproductive justice issues. In 2003, Ross received an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law degree from Arcadia University. She was national co-director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants. From 1996-2004, she was the founder and executive director of the National Center for Human Rights Education in Atlanta. She is an expert on human rights, women’s issues, diversity issues, hate groups and right-wing organizations.

She co-authored "Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice". Ross is presently writing a book on reproductive rights entitled "Black Abortion" and editing an anthology about reproductive justice.

Ross was one of the first African American women to direct the first rape crisis center in the United States in the 1970s. From 1985 to 1989, she served as the director of Women of Color Programs for the National Organization for Women, organizing the first national conference on Women of Color and Reproductive Rights in 1987. She has appeared as a commentator on Pacifica News Service, "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," "The Charlie Rose Show," CNN, and BET.

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