N. Ordover

N. Ordover is the author of American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism which focuses on the convergence of medical, judicial, and public policy discourses that left marginalized communities and populations (immigrants, people of color, poor women, LGBTQ people, PLWHAs, people receiving state assistance) vulnerable to eugenics for the better part of the twentieth century and explores the ways in which this legacy continues to inform economic and health care policies. In 2006, Ordover co-founded the Coalition to Lift the Bar, an alliance of LGBT, human rights, immigrant justice, and HIV/AIDS organizations that waged a successful campaign to overturn the US ban on entry, residence, and stay for HIV-positive people. Ordover served on the International Task Team on HIV-Related Travel Restrictions, convened by and concerned with issues relating to the health, human rights, and economic impact(s) of HIV entry bars on immigrants, migrants, refugees, asylees, detainees, and other mobile populations. Ordover earned a PhD in Ethnic Studies at the UC Berkeley and did a post-doc at Columbia University’s Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights. While still in San Francisco, Ordover served on the editorial collective of Socialist Review, a nonsectarian journal concerned with issues of public policy, cultural dissent, and political economy. For several years, Ordover taught Urban Studies at the Queens College Worker Education Extension Center, a program borne of collaboration between the City University of New York and local labor unions, designed for rank and file union members working toward their BAs and MAs. Currently Ordover is Program Director at Funders for LGBTQ Issues in New York.