As the Senior Program Strategist for the Center for Liberty, Lorraine Kenny plays a pivotal role in the work of the Center, including helping to develop and implement cross issue initiatives for the Reproductive Freedom Project, Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Project, Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, Women’s Rights Project, and HIV/AIDS Project.

She brings to the role ten years of experience in the Reproductive Freedom Project, most recently as its Public Education Director. In that capacity she developed strategic communications plans, developed and managed innovative research projects addressing sexuality education and abortion communication, managed the Project’s relations with the media, oversaw the Project’s Web site and other public education materials, and coordinated 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 (2002), as well as author of articles on sexuality education and access to reproductive health care in prison, 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 in 2000, Ms. Kenny taught anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College.