Priscilla Alexander Biography
- Title:
- Co-founder and Coordinator of the National Task Force on Prostitution
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Should Prostitution Be Legal?"
- Reasoning:
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“The right to be a prostitute is as important as the right not to be one. It is the right to set the terms of one’s own sexuality, plus the right to earn a good living.”
Unrepentant Whore, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Director of Research and Evaluation, Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Disease (FROST’D)
- Co-founder and Coordinator, The National Task Force on Prostitution (NFTP), 1979-2000
- Founding Member, Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE), 1976-1995
- Consultant, Global Programme on AIDS, World Health Organization (WHO),1989-1993
- Founding Member, California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP), 1987-1989
- Former Co-director, COYOTE San Francisco
- Former Action Coordinator, California National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Academic Advisory Boardmember, International Sex Worker Foundation For Art, Culture and Education (ISWFACE)
- Education:
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- Attended Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- San Francisco State University
- Bank Street College of Education
- BA, Bennington College, 1960
- Other:
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- None found