In a post-Roe world, questions remain about the future of healthcare facilities that provide access to abortion and which role architects can play in making these spaces welcoming and available. To address these topics and more, join us for a conversation with Lori Brown FAIA, by architect and abortion advocate, and Shoshanna Ehrlich JD, legal scholar and professor at University Massachusetts Boston.

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Panelists

Image credit Laura Heyman

Lori Brown FAIA
Co-Founder, ArchiteXX

Lori has developed a creative research practice focusing on the relationships between architecture and social justice issues with particular emphasis on gender and its impact upon spatial relationships in hopes to broaden the discourse and involvement of architecture in our world. She is the co-founder and leads ArchiteXX, a gender equity in architecture organization in New York City ArchiteXX’s current curatorial project is the travelling exhibition Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture since 1968 and has been supported by the Graham Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her two books include Feminist Practices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture, an edited collection of a group of international women designers and architects employing feminist methodologies in their creative practices (2011) that began as a traveling exhibition and Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals exploring highly securitized spaces and the impact of legislation and the First Amendment’s affect upon such places (2013). She is working with two abortion clinics on design interventions for their public interface. Currently her two book projects include Birthing, Borders and Bodies and co-editing The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2015 (2023) with Dr. Karen Burns. She is a 2021 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices recipient and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She is a Professor at the School of Architecture Syracuse University and a registered architect in New York state.

Shoshanna Ehrlich, JD
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University Massachusetts Boston