Lynn Roberts Assistant Professor	Office:  BC1015W Email: lroberts@hunter.cuny.edu Phone: 212 481-5110 Fax: 212 481-5260

Professional Interests:
Adolescent and women's health; violence prevention; community organizing & development; health disparities. Served as the Director of Community Projects & Training with the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health and founding Director of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York's First Steps Program, a comprehensive intervention program for substance using mothers and their families in Harlem. Also a member of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. Current research interests include an examination of the intersection of race, class and gender and the resulting impact of multiple oppressions on the dating relationships and sexual risk taking behaviors of young women and men of color.

Primary Teaching Areas:
Community health education, community organizing, qualitative research methods, service learning, women and adolescent health

Selected Publications:
Roberts, L., Ross, L. Kuumba, M.B. (2005). The reproductive health and sexual rights of women of color: still building a movement. NWSA Journal, 17;1: 93-98.
Roberts, L. (1999). Creating a new framework for promoting the health of African American female

Education:
BS, Howard University, 1984
PhD, Cornell University, 1990