Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of four books, including Killing the Black Body, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roberts is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner, for ”Exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.“ Photo credit © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-used with permission.