Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a historian, writer, and editor based in North Carolina. She earned her PhD in African-American and Southern legal history from Duke University, and a master's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina. She has worked in reproductive health and rights on the national and global stage, with stints at Ipas, FHI 360 and others. A former senior editor at Rewire.News, she is an editor with and member of Echoing Ida, a Forward Together program that cultivates the writing talents of Black women and nonbinary people with interests in reproductive and social justice. Greenlee's own writing has appeared in publications as diverse as American Prospect, Bon Appetit, Elle, Essence.com, Literary Hub, Longreads, Narratively, Smithsonian, Vice, Vox, and the Washington Post. For the 2019-2020 year, she is a Open Society Foundations Media Justice Fellow, working on a project about the historical and contemporary criminalization of reproductive health. Visit her website at cynthiagreenlee.com and follow her on Twitter @CynthiaGreenlee.
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