Join us on Thursday April 9, 2026 at Berkeley Law (5:30pm, Room 170) for a presentation by Dorothy Roberts on her latest book, The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family, which is a “spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity.” See coverage of the book in the New York Times.

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Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and the Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania. She is a 2024 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. An internationally acclaimed scholar, activist, and social critic, she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. Dorothy is also the author of, TORN APART is about how the child welfare system destroys black families and how abolition can build a safer world.