Lorraine Kenny

Name

Lorraine Kenny

Organization/Company

American Civil Liberties Union
Specialty: Reproductive Rights

About Me

Ms. Kenny joined the Reproductive Freedom Project as Public Education Coordinator in 2000. She is responsible for managing the Project's relations with the media; developing strategic communications plans; writing, editing, and updating the Project's Web site and other public education materials; and coordinating outreach to coalition partners and ACLU affiliates. She is also a co-author and editor of the Project's report, Religious Refusals and Reproductive Rights (January, 2002), among other reproductive rights publications.

Ms. Kenny graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1984 and in 1996 received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz with a parenthetical degree in anthropology. She is an experienced writer, editor, and teacher and has published several works, including a book, Daughters of Suburbia: Growing Up White, Middle Class, and Female (Rutgers University Press 2000). Before joining the Project, Ms. Kenny taught anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.