Zakiya Luna
President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2850 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 500
Berkeley, CA 94705-7220
Tel: (510) 643-2335
Fax: (510) 643-7095
Email Address: zluna@law.berkeley.edu
Zakiya Luna is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. She is also affiliated with the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and Sociology and the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan (2011), where she also earned her Masters of Social Work (2009). Her research is in the areas of social movements, law and society, reproduction and identity. Her current research examines why and how marginalized women in the US are engaging international human rights discourse to advance a broader movement for reproductive justice that addresses rights to have children and rights to parent. Her research was has been funded by multiple sources including the National Science Foundation. She has published in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Sociological Inquiry, Feminist Studies and Societies without Borders: Social Science and Human Rights. In 2011-2 she was the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison.