Luz Rodriguez (born March 7, 1956) is a Puerto Rican reproductive rights advocate.
[1] From 1976 to 1978[2] Rodriguez studied dance at the Pratt Institute before going on to receive her Bachelor of Science degree from New York University in 1982.
[1][4] While at NYU, she researched the sterilization of and the pharmaceutical companies' birth control experimentation on Puerto Rican women after hearing some of their stories growing up.
[1] From 1997 to 1998, Rodriguez led a series of meetings focusing on reproductive-tract infections among women of color with the Ford Foundation.
This led to the founding of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.