Candace Bond-Theriault, JD., LL.M. is a lawyer, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Demos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement. Her writing has been published in The Nation, SELF magazine, Ms. Magazine, Colorlines, the Root, Blavity, Rewire, the Advocate, the Grio, and the Huffington Post.