Allison Hartry ’12 Wins National Writing Prize

Allison Hartry ’12 has won the Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights. Hartry earned the $750 top prize for “Birthright Citizenship and Reproductive Justice in Immigration Detention Centers.” She wrote the article in Professor Kristin Luker’s Reproductive Rights class last fall, and honed it during an independent study with Professor Leti Volpp. It marked the first time a Berkeley Law student has won this national award, and Hartry’s article will be published in a forthcoming volume of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change. The competition’s theme was “Beyond the Books: Realizing Reproductive Rights in Real Lives.”