Khiara M. Bridges is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a nationally-recognized expert on the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights.  

Her scholarship has appeared in the most influential law reviews in the country, including the flagship law journals at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, among many others. She is also the author of four books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019, 2026), and Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans (2026). 

Bridges graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically-trained ballet dancer who danced professionally in New York City for twenty years before moving to the Bay Area.