Discrimination Behind Bars | Ensuring Reproductive Justice and Family Unity for All

Learn from these experts about the effect of discrimination on reproductive health, reproductive justice, and family unity for incarcerated persons and people on the margins in California.

1.0 Elimination of Bias MCLE Credit Available

Arneta Rogers:

Arneta Rogers (she/they) is the Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Justice Director at the ACLU of Northern California where they provide programmatic leadership and vision to a team of reproductive and gender justice advocates. Their work focuses on advancing reproductive and gender justice in the criminal legal system and expanding and protecting access to reproductive healthcare for low-and no-income people, communities of color, immigrants, young people, LGBTQ people and all communities on the margins throughout California.

Prior to joining the ACLU, Arneta was the policy director at Positive Women’s Network-USA where they began as an If/When/How Reproductive Justice-HIV Fellow. At PWN they launched a yearlong policy fellowship to prepare women and people of trans experience living with HIV to lead in policy advocacy, and worked in coalition to help pass SB 239, repealing California’s discriminatory HIV criminalization laws.

With over a decade of experience in racial and reproductive justice, Arneta has also worked at the Women’s Community Clinic of San Francisco and graduated from the California Women’s Foundation Women’s Policy Institute. Arneta earned their law degree from UC Hastings College of the Law as part of the social justice concentration, and enjoys tending to their Oakland garden, playing basketball, and drumming for the movement with the BoomShake in their free time.

Rachel Johnson-Farias:

Rachel Johnson-Farias has dedicated her legal career to making the law more accessible to low-income women and communities of color. Rachel graduated with honors from Occidental College and obtained a BA in Critical Theory and Social Justice. She went on to earn her JD degree from Berkeley Law. During law school, Rachel received the Francine Diaz Memorial Award for her commitment to social justice through legal services and advocacy.

After completing her legal education, Rachel was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to implement the Starting Over Strong (SOS) program at the East Bay Community Law Center; a juvenile reentry program for young people seeking to seal their juvenile records. Rachel’s prior experience in working with low-income clients and dedication to empowering youth led her to create Esq. Apprentice, a non-profit that provides legal training to nontraditional law students of color. 

Rachel has returned to her alma mater, Berkeley Law, to lead the Center on Reproductive Rights & Justice where she focuses on Black maternal health, economic justice as reproductive justice, and family unity

This program has been approved for credit in the following jurisdiction(s):

State Bar Of California

Credit has been approved with the State Bar Of California for 1.00 Elimination of Bias credit.

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