Anna Moring
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Anna Moring

Anna Moring, project manager of the Kaikkien perheiden Suomi (‘Finland for all Families’) project wants to make Finland a better place for diverse kinds of families. Gender studies have given her a good platform for achieving this goal. Moring’s doctoral dissertation dealt with the position of rainbow families in society.

Anna Moring

Anna Raisa Aurora Moring
Born December 12, 1978, Espoo

PhD, 2013 (gender studies) and Master of Arts, 2005 (women’s studies), University of Helsinki; Bachelor of Arts, 2003, University of Turku (literature)

Project manager, Kaikkien perheiden Suomi (‘Finland for all Families’) project, 2013–
Education coordinator, Rainbow Families, 2012–13
General Secretary, Green Women’s Association
PhD student, University of Helsinki, 2007–12
Sub-editor, Naistutkimus-lehti, 2004–05

Written by Suvi Uotinen
Translated by Matthew Billington

Anna Moring’s doctoral dissertation dealt with the position of rainbow families in society. Rainbow families are families formed some other way than through a relationship between a man and a woman. At the time of completing her dissertation, in June of 2013, Moring concluded that family law should be rewritten with the true diversity of families in mind.

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Anna Moring has also been involved in politics. Between 2010 and 2011 she was the General Secretary of the Green Women’s Association, and a candidate for the Greens in the European Parliament Election of 2009 and the Finnish Parliament Election of 2011.

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Anna Moring hopes that she will have more time to think and write at some point in the future. She still retains the thirst for knowledge and curiosity of her days at the University.

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