Social Justice and Public Interest

“What I’ve observed is an increase in awareness about the efficacy of doulas,” says Berkeley Law Professor Khiara M. Bridges. “Training programs have proliferated. Students, activists, people who otherwise might not have entered this field are becoming doulas so they can help save lives, or at least make childbirth more empowering instead of another site of degradation.”

Professor Leti Volpp joins a panel of UC Berkeley experts to unpack how the Page Act helped institutionalize racially targeted exclusion and gendered surveillance at the border, and how it laid the groundwork for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later immigration laws. 

Mallika Kaur, director of the Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence Practicum at UC Berkeley Law, said that cultural expectations play a major role in keeping survivors silent.