Anna Clark

Anna Clark is a writer from Detroit who is on a Fulbright fellowship in Kenya in 2011. Her journalism has appeared in The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, Salon, The Nation, UTNE Reader, AlterNet, Religion Dispatches, ColorLines, make/shift, and The Detroit Free Press, among other publications. Anna has been a fellow with the Peter Jennings Center for Journalists and the Constitution, and she has spent more than a decade facilitating writing workshops in prisons, detention centers, camps, homeless shelters, colleges, and urban schools. She also edits the literary website, Isak (www.isak.typepad.com). Anna graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan, and from Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers.

Articles

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

<p>An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?</p>

Challenge to Florida's VBAC Ban Intensifies

<p>Unwilling to accept a permanent ban on vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in Florida's birth centers, a coalition challenging the rule argues that Florida’s <a href="http://ahca.myflorida.com/PublicMeetingNotices.shtml">Agency for Health Care Administration</a> is overstepping its bounds by intervening in the activities of licensed healthcare providers and by overriding the "informed consent" standard for patients. See full story <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/04/12/challenge-florida-vbac-in…;

Florida Agency Set to Ban VBAC in State's Birth Centers

<p>This Wednesday, Florida's <a href="http://ahca.myflorida.com/PublicMeetingNotices.shtml">Agency for Health Care Administration</a> is expected to permanently ban Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) in the state's birth centers. In response, <a href="http://www.birthgirlz.com/">BirthGirlz</a&gt;, a national nonprofit based in Florida, is mounting a legal challenge, arguing that the ban is beyond the scope of the state health agency's role. See full story <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/03/19/florida-agency-vbac-state…;

Shocking Report Reveals Epidemic of Sexual Abuse in Juvenile Prisons

<p>An unprecedented report released last month by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has revealed some disturbing statistics about sexual abuse in U.S. juvenile detention facilities. Twelve percent of youth held in such facilities say that they have been sexually abused over the course of one year. Or, to put it nother way, more than 1 in 10 of young people under state supervision are molested and/or raped. Nearly all of these incidents involve a staff member (about 85 percent), while the rest involve another incarcerated youth.