Jennifer Dunn is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF School of Nursing, a PhD candidate in medical sociology at UCSF, and a reproductive health and social justice lawyer with over 25 years of experience. She began her career in healthcare and civil rights litigation before transitioning into academia, where she taught law for a decade and led interdisciplinary research to expand access to abortion and perinatal care. In 2007, she co-founded the California Abortion Alliance (CAA), serving as its founding Director until 2021. She continues to support abortion providers and the broader abortion access movement through board service and policy advocacy.
Professor Dunn teaches courses on reproduction, law, and society in the Sociology Department at UC Berkeley. Her current research examines how pregnancy care is segregated by race and class, focusing on the role of law and health policy, the persistence of payer-based segregation, and how medical education contributes to the normalization of these practices.