Attorney and women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke, who last February testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on the need to provide access to contraception, will kick off the spring lecture series sponsored by the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics.
Since her undergraduate days at Cornell University, Fluke has been a champion of women’s and children’s rights, and co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which also aided LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) youth. She has served on the Manhattan Borough President’s Taskforce on Domestic Violence, as well as many other New York city and state coalitions to make policy recommendations for domestic abuse victims. She passed the California Bar in 2012.