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Carolyn Lazard is an artist based in Philadelphia and New York. Their work has been exhibited in several institutions including Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Their work was included in the 2019 and 2024 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 Macarthur Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology and the Law School, where she is the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. She is also Founding Director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society and a MacArthur Fellow. An internationally acclaimed scholar, public intellectual, and social justice activist, Roberts has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of race, gender, and class inequities in U.S. institutions and has been a leader in transforming thinking on reproductive justice, child welfare, and bioethics. She is author of the award-winning Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2001); Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (2011); and Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (2022), as well as more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. Other recognitions of her work include elections to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Medicine; Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Rutgers University and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Society of Family Planning Lifetime Achievement Award; Juvenile Law Center Leadership Prize; and American Psychiatric Association Solomon Carter Fuller Award.