Winona Xu

Winona Xu (LinkedIn – X) is a Research Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she developed and teaches UCLA’s first undergraduate curriculum on international law and reproductive health. She also serves as a student lecturer in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

Her interdisciplinary work focuses on reproductive violence as a form of biological genocide, with an emphasis on its recognition and prohibition under international law. Xu’s research contributions—including legal and data-driven analysis for the United Nations Population Fund, the University of Cambridge Reproductive Sociology Network, and the Smithsonian Institution—advance scholarly and legal discussions on fortifying reproductive health as a human right.

As co-founder of Preserve Abortion Access California Taskforce, Xu has mobilized a reproductive justice network serving over 300,000 University of California students. These advocacy and research efforts, conducted in partnership with the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, support the implementation of medication abortion policy in California’s public colleges. Through her teaching, scholarship, and activism, Xu aims to codify reproductive violence as a recognized international human rights violation, guiding states toward more robust protections and equitable access to reproductive care worldwide.