Dr. Goodwin is a distinguished professor and highly sought after lecturer and strategic advisor.  She holds the Chancellor’s Professorship at the University of California, Irvine and is the founder and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and its internationally praised Reproductive Justice Initiative.   She is a prolific author and an acclaimed constitutional law scholar and bioethicist. 

She has guest lectured or given workshops at Berkeley,
Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Oxford, Princeton, Radcliff, Stanford, Yale, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, the University of Amsterdam, Kings College, and many other academic institutions.

Dr. Goodwin is regularly invited to keynote international and national conferences and annual meetings related to law, civil liberties, human rights, women's equality, and racial justice.  She is the founder of academic consortium series as well as the precursor to the Lutie Lytle Faculty Workshop Series. She is the recipient of numerous awards, recognizing her contributions to society and the legal academy, including the Black Pearl Award, Urban League Women's History Month Honor, Chicago History Museum's Pioneering Women Award,  Sandra Day O'Connor Award, Be The Change Award, Faculty Achievement Award, and the Outstanding Scholarship Award, among others. Kentucky Governor Paul Patton commissioned her a Colonel in 2001.

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