Terri Laws

Public Lecture Title: African Americans, Religion, and the Legalization of Death With Dignity

Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 4:00-6:00 pm

Dr. Laws is a second career academic. Her research interests in the experiences of underserved and under-represented communities developed out of her nearly two decades of administrative service in government, a pediatric academic medical center, and a national workforce development non-profit. Those experiences sparked her focus on the systemic experiences of marginalized social and cultural groups and how cultural norms and values are embedded within institutional systems. Laws received the Doctor of Philosophy in Religion from Rice University in Houston, Texas and completed a bioethics training and research fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She completed the Master of Divinity at the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Cincinnati