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Yanilda Gonzalez is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School</a>. She teaches Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times, as well as Policing, Citizenship, and Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Both courses offer guidance for analyzing systemic inequalities and injustice in American society.
According to her university profile, Professor Gonzalez focuses her research on “policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.” She has also published several scholarly articles and one book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Authoritarian_Police_in_Democracy/afwAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=authoritarian+police+in+democracy&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America</a>.”
The book explores why “police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law [and] the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization.”
In a <a href="https://youtu.be/CkGBLBCHaXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School video discussion</a> of her book, Gonzalez said her inspiration for the publication started when she was a “young and impressionable college student who was starting to learn about democracy as a political science major.” After witnessing alleged human rights abuses during 9/11, working for the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/forces-against-progress-are-gathering-new-york-must-lead-way-forward">New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)</a>, and studying post-dictatorship policing in South America, Gonzalez came to wonder “how can democratic systems perpetuate authoritarian practices.”
The NYCLU’s is a non-profit organization that focuses on racial justice, voting reform, transgender rights, and the rights of incarcerated people. The group’s legislative goals include lowering incarceration rates among Blacks by decriminalizing minor drug possession and eliminating “taxes on poverty” — these are court fees and fines collected by local governments as a “major source of funding.”
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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”

In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
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Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”

In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”

The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.

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<a href="https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/faculty/jonathan-l-walton/">Dr. Jonathan L. Walton</a>, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University and formerly of Harvard University, called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization". In a sermon on campus after the Las Vegas mass shooting, Walton, who has a Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton, blamed "Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries [for] eating away at the soul of this nation," Walton later calls President Donald Trump a "Madman" who "embodies the worst aspects of our country's cultural disease."

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mark-tushnet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Tushnet</a> is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. According to Tushnet’s faculty profile his research interest “includes students of constitutional review in the United States and around the world and the creation of other ‘institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.’”

In May 2016, the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/10/harvard-professor-start-treating-christians-nazis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Times</a> featured Tushnet in an article titled “Harvard professor: Start treating Christian conservatives like Nazis.” The Times said: 
“Mr. Tushnet said liberals should stop being so hesitant to advance their agenda through the judiciary, saying a majority of federal judges have been appointed by Democrat presidents, and they need not worry ‘reversal by the Supreme Court now that former Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is dead.”
Tushnet wrote a <a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/05/abandoning-defensive-crouch-liberal.html">blog post</a> that same year where he challenged readers to “abandon defensive-crouch liberalism” and to “aggressively exploit the ambiguities and loopholes in unfavorable precedents that aren’t worth overruling.” 

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On August 1, 2023, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a> that Tushnet sent an open letter to the Biden Administration wherein he “labeled the [SCOTUS] conservative majority as ‘MAGA justices,’ implying the judges have a political relationship to former President Donald Trump…”

Campus Reform noted how Tushnet “used the recent ruling on affirmative action as an example and proposed that Biden could emphasize that the ruling applies only to certain college institutions, while still vigorously pursuing affirmative action in other contexts…”

<a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-biden-administration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In the letter</a>, Tushnet states: 
“We do not believe that President Biden should simply ignore every MAGA ruling. The President should act when MAGA justices issue high-stakes rulings that are based on gravely mistaken constitutional interpretations…Such actions could help contain the grave threat posed by MAGA justices.”
He continues:
“In this particular historical moment, MAGA justices pose a grave threat to our most fundamental commitments because they rule consistently to undermine democracy and to curtail fundamental rights, and because many of their rulings are based on misleading and untrue claims.”
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Dr. Michelle Morse is an internal medicine and public health doctor who, according to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-morse-251a0ba1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> biography, “works to achieve health equity through global solidarity, social medicine and anti-racism education, and activism.” Her <a href="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty biography</a> describes her position as “an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founder of the EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium.”

Morse has several, notable publications, including “<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33640157/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission,</a>” and “<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2789583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Act Upon Racism- not Race- as a Risk Factor</a>.” The former publication, regarding reparations, made the claim that the United States should pursue racial-justice interventions, including reparations payments, to ameliorate racial disparities that originated through COVID-19.

According to a report by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23630" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Morse was featured as a keynote speaker for a medical residency graduation ceremony. <a href="https://onebrooklynhealth.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Brooklyn Health</a>, a New York-based network of hospitals, held its ceremony on June 7, 2023, that included Dr. Michelle Morse as the keynote speaker for the second consecutive year.

Morse began her speech by mentioning contributors to what she called “scary times,” including:

“Misinformation about what is contained in COVID vaccines, misinformation about the ways public school teachers instruct students about our country’s violent founding and enslavement, settler colonialism, patriarchy, structural racism, or what really happened on January 6.”

She recalled her experiences during the AIDS epidemic and how it motivated her to become an “even more radicalized student activist,” and that she returned to the United States to “do more direct activism for social justice during residency.” Within the speech, she also asserted that “the current state of our country is unfair and unjust towards people of color, period.”

After the speech, a graduate attendee shared some thoughts with a Campus Reform reporter, saying that many students are discontent with the rise of woke ideology in the medical field, but are afraid to speak up because they feel as though they are “slaves to debt,” and cannot afford to risk losing their jobs by speaking out.
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<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/michelle-evelyn-morse">Michelle Evelyn Morse</a>, M.D. is a Instructor of Medicine and an Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.  She is also co-founder of the <a href="http://www.socialmedicineconsortium.org/campaign-against-racism/">Campaign Against Racism</a>, which describes itself as an organization that seeks to “dismantle structural racism and its effects on health around the world.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-06-02/health-care-part-systems-oppression-says-harvard-medicine-professor">The World</a>, Morse outlined what she believes is structural oppression in the healthcare field. She explained how the Coronavirus is exposing divides caused by racism:

“And I think what we're seeing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on communities of color is that these are the fault lines that have existed for generations. And the sources are the very social arrangement that puts white people on top and black and brown people on the bottom.” 

 Morse has admitted that the long-term goal of her organization is to destroy capitalism, saying, “...the systems of racial capitalism and structural racism that we're trying to impact and upend and break down are going to take much, much longer” 

Morse is also very candid about utilizing the coronavirus pandemic to accomplish her organization’s ambitions of fundamentally transforming the country: 

“We have to seize on this moment. We have to make sure that health workers are not just assumed to be the heroes of COVID-19, that we actually do the work of upending the sources of oppression that have led to these inequities and that we recognize that that takes time and that that takes constant pressure.”

<a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/people/cornel-r-west">Dr. Cornel West</a> is a former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. West is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and has used the organization’s platform to <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/cornel_west_endorses_bernie_sanders/">endorse</a> Bernie Sanders for president.  

West is known for his vocal opposition to Donald Trump, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14389">describing</a> him at a rally for Bernie Sanders as a “neo-fascist gangster.”

West is also notable for his mistrust of the official narrative of 9/11. As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5054">reported</a> by Campus Reform, he relayed his suspicion when asked if 9/11 was an inside job during the Million Muslim March in Washington D.C. “At this point, I’m still uncertain. I think there might be a possibility but my hunch is that with Bin Laden’s definitive investment, he must have had something to do with it,” explained West.

Among West’s other peculiar beliefs, he is an avowed socialist that has served as an honorary chair for the DSA. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYAH-BZZTs">interview</a> with Laura Flanders, he praised Karl Marx for having an “indispensable” analysis of America, declaring that American capitalism forces people to live in “wage slavery.” When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuc6C2_Txmw">challenged</a> by Tucker Carlson for his support of Socialism, most notably for its repeated and abysmal failures, West deflected and accused the US of interfering in preventing the implementation of authentic socialism in places like Venezuela.

Perhaps the most disturbing example of Dr. West’s radical beliefs is his sustained relationship and defense of notorious Nation of Islam (NOI) leader, Louis Farrakhan. 

Farrakhan is noted for his virulent and antisemitic remarks praise of Adolf Hitler made during NOI sermons:
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 	<li>“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a VERY great man.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"...there were many Israeli’s and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have control over those agencies of government. When you want something in the world, a Jew holds the door."</li>
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Despite a bevy of disgusting remarks, Dr. West continues to collaborate with and defend Farrakhan. He most recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfC-z80GCSk">appeared</a> with him at an event in Chicago, hosted by PBS, to discuss issues in the black community. Numerous other academics and community leaders were present. His association with Farrakhan goes back decades, as is exhibited in a lecture given at Harvard University where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KwhXPXjjMw">flouted</a> his agreement with him that white supremacy is ingrained in America. In another lecture,  Dr. West openly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmuSqlvWE4">admitted</a> that he works with Farrakhan. 

When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwhYShH-pE">pressed</a> by Roland Marted about his relationship with Farrakhan, West refused to disavow him. West responded that “people need to stop lying about my brother,” and denied that Farrakhan had ever made anti-Semitic remarks. West went on to praise Farrakhan for his “consistency” on white supremacy.   

Dr. West has also openly embraced ANTIFA. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/1/cornel_west_us_moment_of_reckoning">Appearing</a> on Democracy Now!, Dr. West claimed that ANTIFA “saved his life” when protesting in Charlottesville and lambasted the Trump administration's decision to label ANTIFA a terrorist organization:

“...ANTIFA saved my life in Charlottesville. There’s no doubt about it, that they provided the security, you see. So the very notion that they become candidates for a terrorist organization, but the people who were trying to kill us — the Nazis, the Klan — they’re not candidates for terrorist organization status — but that’s what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a Trump-led neofascist backlash and clampdown on what is going on. We ought to be very clear about that. The neofascism has that kind of obsession with militaristic imposition in the face of any kind of disorder. And so we’ve got to be fortified for that.”

Cornel West is a vocal critic of Israel. In 2014 - though aware that terrorist group Hamas was launching thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian areas - he nonetheless <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFVnRfpj7w&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=281">accused</a> Israel of state-sponsored terrorism and urged “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinians.

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet">Elizabeth Bartholet</a> is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard University. Bartholet’s work is primarily centered around child welfare. She <a href="https://bartholet.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/children.pdf">believes</a> that “poverty and social justice are the root causes of most child maltreatment” and that early childhood intervention by social services is needed to prevent abuse. 

Bartholet is a vocal and visceral opponent of home-schooling, describing it as “near-absolute parental power” and “inconsistent” with the human rights of children. In a <a href="https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf">paper written for the Arizona Law Review</a>, she advocates for an outright ban on homeschooling. Bartholet sees homeschooling as a danger to society, and accuses parents who decide to remove their children from public schools of promoting segregation and misogyny:  

“...parents can now keep their children at home in the name of homeschooling free from any real scrutiny as to whether or how they are educating their children. Many homeschool because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to our democracy, determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Abusive parents can keep their children at home free from the risk that teachers will report them to child protection services. Some homeschool precisely for this reason.”

Bartholet repeats and expands on her position, claiming that homeschooling may lead to child abuse: 

“Parents can choose to teach that biblical truth trumps all, that all science is false science, that women should be educated to be subservient to men, that people of color are inferior to whites, that people with nontraditional sexual orientations or gender identities should be “cured” or condemned. Parents can choose to put their children to work, notwithstanding child labor laws. Parents can choose to beat their children, starve them, or chain them up…”

Bartholet then critiques the inability to enact any legislation due to the “outdated nature of the Constitution, 

“The U.S. Constitution with its negative rights structure is an anomaly, outdated and inadequate by the standards of the rest of the world Negative rights— rights to be free from state intervention—are particularly inadequate for children...The U.S. Constitution’s focus on negative rights represents an older western constitutional tradition, “increasingly out of step with emerging constitutional norms…”

Bartholet’s hostility towards homeschooling appears to stem from the fact that a disproportionate amount of these parents are conservative Christians and not progressives: 

“It is the religious ideologues who dominate the homeschooling movement...Nor is there any other significant advocacy organization designed to represent the views of the highly educated nonreligious homeschoolers, the descendants of the John Holt progressive wing of the homeschooling movement.”

Bartholet had been slated to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14850">appear</a> at a Harvard-sponsored summit that was described as an “anti-homeschooling conference.” Titled “<a href="https://cap.law.harvard.edu/homeschooling-summit-june-18-19-2020/">Homeschooling Summit: Problems, Politics, and Prospects for Reform</a>,” it has since been postponed after receiving fierce backlash.

Dr. David R. Williams is a <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured professor at Harvard University</a>. He specializes in several subjects, including Public Health, Sociology, and African American Studies. Dr. Williams has also delivered many lectures and written a substantial number of publications that discuss discrimination and racism in the United States, particularly in healthcare, and the negative health impact conservatives have on Democrats and minorities.

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In 2016, Dr. Williams appeared in a TED Talk titled, “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick/transcript?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Racism Makes Us Sick</a>”. In this 16 minute video, he discusses how stereotypes in the subconscious minds of healthcare professionals lead to lesser quality care for minorities. He attributes this to implicit biases and explains how it’s an unconscious process that occurs “even among the most well-intended individuals.” According to Williams, when a person of color is being treated by a non-minority medical professional, that provider holds unconscious and inherent biases that cause them to unknowingly provide lesser quality healthcare.

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A topic Dr. Williams discusses often, particularly on Twitter, is white privilege and supremacy in politics. In an <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/williams_medlock_nejm_elections_and_health_2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article published by the New England Journal of Medicine</a> in 2017, Dr. Williams alleges that President Donald Trump’s candidacy reignited pre-existing hostile attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. He goes on to describe how Democrats in particular experienced negative health effects after the 2016 election, as they feel they are direct targets of hostility and discrimination, particularly white American conservatives.

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He further accuses the conservative-run Tea Party, which materialized after the election of Barack Obama, of increasing racial animosity in the United States. Dr. Williams claims a large uptick in racism on social media occurred after Obama’s election, as well as a resurgence of historically racist stereotypes. He attributes all of this to the Tea Party.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tea Party</a> is an organization that was created in response to the 2008 financial and housing crisis in the United States. Outraged by the Obama administration’s policies - such as the mortgage bailouts in 2009 - the Tea Party was born. <a href="https://www.teaparty.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to their website</a>, the Tea Party claims to have millions of members nationwide, consisting of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents alike.

Dr. Williams is also credited with developing the “<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/node/32397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Everyday Discrimination Scale</a>” that is widely used as a measure of subjective experiences of discrimination in order to measure feelings of racism. This scale is used in schools to measure students’ perceived level of discrimination in their everyday lives. On the flip side, if students score very low on the scale, teachers and professors want to know why students think they aren’t being discriminated against. This typically boils down to the color of their skin.

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The scale is used in several major universities, particularly in healthcare studies. The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies uses the scale to measure “subjective experiences of daily discrimination against the minority population.” Further details about their use of the scale <a href="https://elcentro.sonhs.miami.edu/research/measures-library/daily-discrimination-scale/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be found here</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Williams for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</a> at (617) 495-1000.

On January 2, 2024, <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/harvard-president-reigns-following-refusal-to-condemn-antisemitism-on-campus?utm_campaign=Advancement%20TPUSA%20Weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=2&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hFolse9exN61ocxk6aL6gdlUpP75ptHE-ZLqrTXQI95H-6YArBFTPfeu0TanyhMWv4WtUHY6V6HslQ9IKwMkXpVSvSA&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TPUSA Live reported</a>, “Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has received public backlash for her refusal to adequately denounce antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, has issued a letter of resignation.”

As of January 11, over 10,000 people <a href="https://www.change.org/p/resist-the-call-for-the-resignation-of-claudine-gay-as-harvard-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed the Change.org petition</a> calling for Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. The shift away from public support started after Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/oklC-xpSOWc?list=TLPQMTIxMjIwMjOdO_R_5s2NVQ">congressional testimony</a> where she refused to condemn anti-Jewish protests on campus. 

During the December 5, 2023 hearing, New York Representative Elise Stefanik <a href="https://youtu.be/lwu3rBAWvOQ">asked</a> Gay whether inciting violence and genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s rules on bullying or harassment. Gay said, “It can be, depending on the context.” When grilled further about the context, Gay explained, “[When it’s] targeted at an individual.”

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After the October 7 Hamas terrorist invasion that killed over 1,000 Jewish citizens, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/6/unrecognized-student-group-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 30 pro-Palestine student groups</a> began protesting on Harvard’s main campus. The Crimson reported that 33 student groups also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement of responsibility</a> wherein Israel is solely blamed for the attack.

In November, at the height of pro-Hamas protests on campus, Gay released a statement:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views. But that’s a far cry from endorsing them. It’s in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters, and we reveal the character of our institution.…”
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On December 11, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-president-claudine-gay-accused-of-plagiarizing-sections-of-her-ph-d-dissertation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> broke the story on Gay in an article titled, “Harvard President Claudine Gay accused of plagiarizing sections of her Ph.D. dissertation.” Quoting <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo’s report</a>, The College Fix said, “‘First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s paper, ‘Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,’ while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language…’”

​​Gay’s resignation also came amid growing controversy surrounding plagiarized publications throughout her career. Gay initially <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/claudine-gay-denies-newly-surfaced-plagiarism-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied all allegations</a> of plagiarism and<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-rallies-behind-president-claudine-gay-amid-calls-for-resignation-2023-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> garnered support</a> from more than 500 faculty members.

On December 12, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/billionaire-confirms-harvard-president-was-dei-hire-as-dozens-more-plagiarism-accusations-emerge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay appeared</a> in The College Fix again. The source said, “Billionaire hedge fund founder Bill Ackman said on [Twitter] he has confirmed that Harvard University’s selection of [Gay] for president was a decision based on diversity, equity and inclusion principles.”

Despite Gay’s lack of integrity and unethical practices, <a href="https://youtu.be/CNXPq6OppJE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> announced that she will remain a professor at Harvard University and will keep her nearly $900,000 salary.

Please send updates and information on Claudine Gay to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Claudine Gay is the Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University — which is the largest division of the university. She’s also a Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and African and African-American Studies.

<a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/pages/dean-claudine-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Gay’s university profile</a> states, “[S]ince 2006, Gay has studied political behavior, considering issues in her research such as: how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government…how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among black Americans…and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among the poor.”

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/cgay/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay’s personal statement</a> says, “I bring many of these interests to my undergraduate and graduate advising and teaching, including my courses on Post-Civil Rights Black Politics; Democratic Citizenship; and Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration.” 

In a publication titled <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/cgay/files/political_behavior_vol_36_p99-124.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-pressures and Black Partisanship</a>, Gay states, in part, “Political observers have long recognized the socially conservative tendencies of the Black mass public. In stark contrast to their views on racial and social welfare, African Americans are firmly anchored to the political right of whites (and other minorities) on a range of moral and cultural issues, including abortion, gay rights, and women’s role in society.”

Professor Gay is also affiliated with <a href="https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Inequality in America program</a> – “a multidisciplinary effort to elevate and energize teaching and research on social and economic inequality and to use what we learn to inform the public debate and public response to these challenges.” 

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/8/gay-thrilled-taeku-hire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Gay’s enthusiasm for expanding the school’s ethnic studies program as she welcomed a new faculty recruit. The article says, “Following more than four decades of lobbying by Harvard students and alumni for an ethnic studies concentration, Gay launched a search for faculty specializing in Asian American, Latinx, and Muslim studies in June 2019.”

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Published - October 6, 2022

Dr. Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=7287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair</a> of the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative. Ely’s research focuses on race and gender relations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.

A <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/race-gender-equity-initiative.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Newsroom press release</a> described the initiative as “both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work done to understand…racial equality in organizations and business…”

Dr. Ely said, “Our faculty pursue research in a wide range of fields related to equity, creating knowledge that helps leaders drive change in their organizations and the world,” according to Harvard Newsroom.

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Ely has published several books and journal articles. In 2018, she co-authored an article titled <a href="https://hbr.org/2018/03/beating-the-odds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women</a> in which she claimed, “Too often we see business leaders struggle to advance members of underrepresented groups because they model their development strategies on their own paths to success.”

The article concludes by stating, “When African-American women are underrepresented in an organization’s senior leadership roles despite robust academic credentials and work experience, their struggles often suggest a broader problem: a workplace that fails to offer every employee equal access to opportunities for growth.”

In a 2018 symposium, Race, Work &amp; Leadership: Learning About &amp; From Black Experience, Ely said, “[I] take an intersectional approach with the Gender Initiative…I think this is where the energy in the world is right now…gender really shape[s] the lives and livelihoods of people and also our workplaces.”

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Published in 2022

<a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/susan-farbstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Farbstein is a Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School</a> (HLS) and the Director of the International Human Rights Clinic. Her work and research focus on human rights in South Africa and socio-economic rights and racial justice in the United States. She has also served as a human rights attorney for South African Apartheid Litigation and other “transitional justice” cases.

In 2017, Farbstein gave <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlU7yaWoCjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an informal talk to male and female HLS students</a>. She opened the meeting by stating she was “happy to celebrate and acknowledge all [they] had achieved as women while being mindful of the many ongoing struggles [for equality] across all spheres – political, economic, social, and cultural in the U.S. and around the world.”

She also said, “We know and feel the many ways that women are under attack,” while acknowledging the women sitting in the room were “comparatively privileged.”

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<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-celebrates-women-inspiring-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today reported</a> that Farbstein received recognition during an International Women’s Day celebration in 2018. She received recognition alongside “the creator of the ‘Me Too’’ movement, the first openly transgender woman of color elected to public office in the United States,” and women’s advocates from the Middle East. 

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Martin Nowak is a <a href="https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/martin-nowak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University.</a> His university profile says he “works on the mathematical description of evolutionary processes” including research on HIV, HBV, and cancer treatment.

In 2021, Nowak was censured by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay</a>, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences after it was revealed that he had connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker who allegedly committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.

<a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/martin-nowak-sanctioned-for-jeffrey-epstein-involvement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Magazine said</a>, “In an email sent to faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the department of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology…Gay announced disciplinary actions against Nowak…stemming from his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

Harvard Magazine continued, “[B]etween 1998 and 2008, Epstein made gifts of $6.5 million to the Program of Evolutionary Dynamics, which was run by Nowak.” Despite Gay initially announcing Nowak would no longer hold his positions at Harvard, it was later confirmed that he would “remain on the faculty of the mathematics department, but Gay listed two-year limits that would be placed on his advising and research activities.”

<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-punishes-professor-who-had-ties-jeffrey-epstein-n1262187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News reported</a> that Nowak “gave Epstein ‘unrestricted’ access to campus…[and] an office in Nowak’s campus research center, along with a building key card, and allowed Epstein to visit even after [his] 2008 sex crimes conviction.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Yanilda Gonzalez is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School</a>. She teaches Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times, as well as Policing, Citizenship, and Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Both courses offer guidance for analyzing systemic inequalities and injustice in American society.

According to her university profile, Professor Gonzalez focuses her research on “policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.” She has also published several scholarly articles and one book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Authoritarian_Police_in_Democracy/afwAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=authoritarian+police+in+democracy&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America</a>.”

The book explores why “police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law [and] the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization.”

In a <a href="https://youtu.be/CkGBLBCHaXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School video discussion</a> of her book, Gonzalez said her inspiration for the publication started when she was a “young and impressionable college student who was starting to learn about democracy as a political science major.” After witnessing alleged human rights abuses during 9/11, working for the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/forces-against-progress-are-gathering-new-york-must-lead-way-forward">New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)</a>, and studying post-dictatorship policing in South America, Gonzalez came to wonder “how can democratic systems perpetuate authoritarian practices.”

The NYCLU’s is a non-profit organization that focuses on racial justice, voting reform, transgender rights, and the rights of incarcerated people. The group’s legislative goals include lowering incarceration rates among Blacks by decriminalizing minor drug possession and eliminating “taxes on poverty” — these are court fees and fines collected by local governments as a “major source of funding.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Aminta Ossom is a <a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/aminta-ossom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law</a> at Harvard University. Her research interests and teaching consist of equality, inclusion, economic and social justice, as well as human rights diplomacy and the role of identity in advocacy.

Ossom was featured in a 2020 Harvard Law Today article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/event-series-explores-racial-justice-and-human-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Series Explores Racial Justice and Human Rights</a>.” She hosted a series of talks “between students, scholars, and practitioners on the role that race plays both in the practice and substance of international human rights work.” When asked what inspired her to convene the event series, Ossom said,

“The series is inspired most directly by the ongoing discussions about systemic racism that have accompanied protests for racial justice around the world…Observations about human rights practice can spark ideas that lead to great legal scholarship.”

In the wake of the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Ossom co-authored <a href="https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=229087098105069064000019124018110099098073020038068011091083024111002018074073066027060118002034019104038016068000078089071026020039005023014121118068002073064111119010065042002003091113006102093092118006112003102116125029086103080105100088068072110090&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toward an Antiracist Clinical Community, Pedagogy, &amp; Practice</a>. The research paper “is intended to serve that goal [of antiracist work], turning the focus inward to interrogate how the status quo of a clinic’s structure, practices, and teaching methods might contribute to racial inequities in the learning environment and legal field.”

During a <a href="https://youtu.be/zRG0pQ_pzio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtual discussion</a>, “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Ossom joined a panel of social justice activists to discuss the legacy of slavery, race violence, and police brutality. Ossom primarily served as the moderator but joined the conversation to share thoughts on the “defund the police” movement:

“I’m also hearing, too, that issues of trust aren’t just issues of trust for the police. They’re also issues of trust for systems of education, nutritional security, water and sanitation, [and] in other systems...But I should also point out that there’s also distrust among other institutions because of the fact that they failed to provide for Black American communities.

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Published - October 20, 2022
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John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster <a href="https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-comaroff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology</a> at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include crime, policing, and democracy in postcolonial politics. 

In June 2022, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/29/comaroff-amended-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Harvard Crimson</a> as an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault crimes on campus. The Crimson said, “Comaroff is facing new allegations of sexual harassment in an <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.242149/gov.uscourts.mad.242149.35.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended lawsuit</a> that includes accounts of unwanted touching, kissing, and sexual remarks during his three decades as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he allegedly engaged in multiple sexual relationships with students.”

When accusations resulted in a lawsuit against the college, Comaroff was placed on unpaid administrative leave in January. Comaroff’s colleagues immediately rallied in support with nearly 40 faculty and staff adding signatures to <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2022/02/04/1353924.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open letter</a>. The letter states:

“Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) found that Comaroff had ‘engaged in verbal conduct that violated the FAS Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy and the FAS Profesional Conduct Policy. Although Comaroff had been accused by three students, only one allegation was found by Harvard's ODR to have any merit.”

“We the undersigned know John Comaroff to be an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen who has for five decades trained and advised hundreds of Ph.D. students of diverse backgrounds…We are dismayed by Harvard’s sanctions against him and concerned about its effects on our ability to advise our own students.”

By February 10 — when details of the lawsuit became public — the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/10/comaroff-faculty-letter-retraction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crimson reported</a>, “Almost all of the Harvard professors who signed an open letter that questioned the results of misconduct investigations into professor Comaroff have retracted their support.” In turn, “some of Harvard’s most prominent scholars signed a letter of retraction” and one sent an email to recant their support.

According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/10/harvard-sexual-misconduct-comaroff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washinton Post</a>, “The reversal came after three Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit accusing the university of ignoring sexual harassment allegations against Comaroff…Attorneys for Comaroff said he categorically denies ever harassing or retaliating against any student…The lawsuit characterized Harvard’s response to complaints as ‘deliberate indifference…’”

As of September, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/09/accused-harasser-john-comaroff-returns-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from administrative leave</a> and allowed back in the classroom. The lawsuit against Harvard and Comaroff is ongoing.

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Published - November 3, 2022

Sandra Susan Smith is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sandra-susan-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice</a> and Faculty Director for the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School. Part of her research interests is focused on racial inequality in pretrial detention and diversion. Smith believes criminal offenders — particularly those in black communities — who are monitored electronically incur unfavorable psychological, social, and economic injuries.

<a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/parole/electronic-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronic monitoring (EM)</a> is an incarceration alternative that allows pretrial offenders to avoid bail payments or extra time behind bars while awaiting court hearings.

Harvard Kennedy School published an article featuring Smith titled <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/san-francisco-has-fewer-pretrial-detainees-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“San Francisco has few pretrial detainees in jail. But at what cost?”</a> Smith’s research into pretrial detainees revealed that “more than 40% were black, despite black people making up only about 5% of San Francisco’s population.” In the article, Smith argues:

“Reforms like pretrial EM, while presumably meant as a move toward lower incarceration, end up trapping participants in cycles of interaction with the criminal legal system even before they’ve been convicted of a crime. EM, like incarceration itself, reproduces inequalities by race and class and prevents participants from becoming full members of society.”

Essentially, Smith advocates that the mental health of offenders who are monitored is a greater risk than the probability of them committing further crimes while awaiting trial. She “hopes that as reforms continue to happen in the criminal justice system…and that San Francisco will substantially scale back its use of pretrial EM,” according to Harvard Kennedy School.

Smith teaches Section A: Exploring Institutions and Modes of Racial Domination of a course called “<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives</a>.” The section description says, 

“This module…[examines] power and oppression in the contemporary American context. We will explore key theoretical and empirical insights from the social sciences to highlight the role of institutions of racial domination have played in producing durable racial hierarchies…”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Cornell Williams Brooks — a former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice. 

His <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/cornell-william-brooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a> states he was a visiting professor of social ethics, law, and justice movement at Boston University’s School of Law and School of Theology. On the Gloria Purvis Podcast, Brooks discussed how “black” churches in America should respond to social justice issues. He said the church was “tremendously consequential” in his life and his decision to become a minister.

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<a href="https://sacobserver.com/2022/10/the-reparations-debate-continues-as-advocates-push-for-broader-societal-acceptance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Brooks supports reparations for the descendants of African slaves.</a> In October 2022, Brooks’s thoughts were included in The Observer article titled “The Reparations Debate Continues as Advocates Push for Broader Societal Acceptance.” The article states, “Although African-Americans were purportedly freed by President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, they have never been totally free from being under the boot of white domination and supremacy.”

Brooks told The Observer,

“‘There are a great many studies about harm and repair [that are] [sic]regular and routine…Data suggests that reparations is [sic] commonplace. For example, veteran’s injuries, losing property, bad vaccines and when farmers lose their crops. Reparations is not aberrational but is a customary means of redress.”

In May 2020, Brooks was featured in an NPR publication titled “<a href="https://www.delawarepublic.org/national-headlines/2020-05-31/former-naacp-head-cornell-brooks-blames-derek-chauvin-for-violence-at-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former NAACP Head Cornell Brooks Blames Derek Chauvin for Violence at Protests.</a>” At the height of the controversy — when netizens and politicians were blaming Antifa and far-left radical extremist groups, Brooks said he thought “the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck should be blamed for violent protests, too.”

NPR quoted Brooks saying,

“In these marches and demonstrations, there are anarchists and white supremacists and others who show up…[b]ut to be clear: There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd.” 

“[Chauvin] should also be charged with looting, with arson, and with sowing the seeds of chaos and dissension in our public. He is an accomplice, he is a co-conspirator [and] a co-participant in the destruction were are experiencing as a country.”
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Rioters may have burned Minneapolis &amp; Atlanta—but matches were supplied by Derek Chauvin &amp; Donald Trump. Who supplied or lit matches won’t matter to a Black mother who loses her child to a fire or bullet.
Don’t give them a victory—or our lives. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/atlantaprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#atlantaprotest</a> <a href="https://t.co/LrWYh5DzGe">pic.twitter.com/LrWYh5DzGe</a>

— Rev. &amp; Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) <a href="https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/status/1266573016923869186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 3, 2022
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Marks serves as a <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.</a> Her professor profile says her “research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of conflict and political violence.” Her work also explores race, gender, and equality.

She teaches International and Intersectional Approaches to Race and Racism — this is “section C” of a class titled “Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives.” The <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> says, 

“Students will confront legacies and explore key frameworks, from caste to global antiblackness, for understanding and redressing how racism shapes our lives and our world. Each student will build a personal toolkit of intersectional policy analysis skills and concepts…we will work toward concrete policy and advocacy solutions to system racism.”

Zoe Marks is an outspoken supporter of pro-abortion policies, social justice, and women’s rights. In an opinion titled “Breaking the Silence,” she told <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/roe-v-wade-has-been-overturned-what-does-mean#zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School News</a>,

“The Supreme Court’s decision to let state legislatures control people’s access to abortion care is the latest chapter in a decades-long conversation that most Americans have been reluctant to have…As a historical reference point, it’s useful to remember there is no record of women being discussed at the Constitutional Convention…”

She continued,

“For millions of enslaved women, who were held as property and legally denied bodily autonomy and personhood, sharing knowledge of birth control and abortifacients was a way to claim their sovereignty and resist white capitalist violence.”

Marks co-authored an article titled “<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-02-08/women-rights-revenge-patriarchs?check_logged_in=1&amp;utm_medium=promo_email&amp;utm_source=lo_flows&amp;utm_campaign=registered_user_welcome&amp;utm_term=email_1&amp;utm_content=20221101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women</a>” in which she discusses the role of women throughout world history and politics. From Marks’ perspective, “Countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders, such as Brazil, Hungary, and Poland, have seen the rise of far-right movements that promote traditional gender roles as patriotic while railing against ‘gender ideology.’”

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In the same publication, Marks also said,

“Even the United States has experienced a slowdown in progress toward gender equity and a rollback of reproductive rights…During his presidency, Donald Trump worked with antifeminist stalwarts…to halt the expansion of women’s rights around the world.”

“And despite the Biden administration’s commitment to gender equity at the national level, Republican-controlled states are attempting to reverse the constitutional right to abortion, which is now more vulnerable than it has been in decades.”

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Published November 3, 2022

Erica Chenoweth is <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/beyond-roe-mutually-reinforcing-nature-misogyny-and-autocracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described by Foreign Affairs</a> as “one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of civil resistance, mass movements, and political repression.”

According to her <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/erica-chenoweth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a>, Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

Chenoweth is an active member of the LGBT+ community who prefers the pronouns “they/them/their.” Her publications include several books and articles focused on civil, “nonviolent resistance.”

In her paper “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erica-Chenoweth/publication/256063007_Terrorism_and_Democracy/links/5d9eb26992851cce3c910876/Terrorism-and-Democracy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terrorism and Democracy,</a>” Chenoweth explores links between terrorism and democratic societies. In response to research findings, she states,

“Democracies with low levels of legitimacy, poor human rights practices, intermediate levels of political and economic development, and unresolved conflict among ethnic and political groups experienced the most terrorism.”

As the director of <a href="https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/non-violent-social-movements?_gl=1*1q1l377*_ga*NjQ4MTM2OTgyLjE2NjQ5MDU5MTg.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTY2NzM0NDUzOS43LjEuMTY2NzM0NDU0Ni4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Nonviolent Action Lab</a>, Chenoweth leads a cause that “produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.” In 2020, the Lab featured an article she co-authored titled “<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/20/erica-chenoweth-and-jeremy-pressman-black-lives-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter protesters were overwhelming peaceful, our research finds.</a>” She defends the “mostly peaceful protests” narrative and cites data from a Homeland Threat Assessment:

“[T]he report misleadingly added that there had been ‘over 100 days of violence destruction in our cities,’ referring to the anti-racism uprisings this past summer. In fact, Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent.”

“Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism…our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.”

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Published November 3, 2022

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/jesse-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse McCarthy</a> is an Assistant Professor of English as well as a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His interests include African American Literature, Modernism, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

McCarthy authored a collection of essays entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Will-Pay-Reparations-Soul-ebook/dp/B08D1K6354/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+will+pay+reparations+on+my+soul+essays&amp;qid=1668008114&amp;sprefix=who+will+pay%2Caps%2C279&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B08D1K6354&amp;revisionId=5b7726f8&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</a>” in which he argues “for the central role of art and intellection culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis,” according to the publisher’s summary. In his introduction, A Note on Style and Usage, McCarthy says,

“Pride in culture and rooted history have always been important to our struggles. Historically, W.E.B. Du Bois and others fought to have the word ‘Negro’ capitalized for this very reason. In that case, ‘the Negro’ became a demonym specifically denoting US racial blackness. The word ‘Negro’...reflects and will always be associated with the history of black Americans under the racial regime of Jim Crow.”

When <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/06/jesse-mccarthy-discusses-his-new-essay-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette asked McCarthy</a>, “Where does the title of the collection come from?”, he said, 

“The title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron…a writer, a poet, and a musician who used his art as a vehicle for ideas and politics and critical thinking…I’m more interested in asking and provoking questions than providing answers.”

He continued,

“This isn’t a prescriptive book — you can’t open it and find an answer to the question of reparations for racial injustice in America or anywhere else. But hopefully, you can open the book and it will provoke you to think about those problems in new ways and raise a bunch of new ones too.”

In 2021, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/review/jesse-mccarthy-who-will-pay-reparations-on-my-soul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured McCarthy discussing his collection of essays</a> in an article titled To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition is Resistance. Regarding McCarthy’s target audience for the book, the commentary says, “Some potential readership came of age in the period bookended by the police killings of Michale Brown, in 2014, and both Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, in 2020 — the same period during which McCarthy wrote the essays…”

The New York Times continued, “[McCarthy] mainly hopes to convey ‘the basic premise that nothing is outside our purview, that there are no limits to the ideas, realms of knowledge, creative traditions or political histories that we can lay claim to and incorporate…[McCarthy] convincing explained [his] personal decision to resist the trend of capitalizing ‘Black’ in reference to the community to which he happens to belong.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence D. Bobo</a> is the Dean of Social Science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His faculty profile also says he served as the Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies, and his research focuses on the “intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics, and race.”

In June 2020, <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/lawrence-d-bobo-examines-police-killings-of-black-men/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette published a Q &amp; A</a> titled “The Fire This Time.” The subheading says, “[Bobo] dissects police killings of Black men and the history and cognitive forces behind racial bigotry and violence, and why he sees signs of hope.”

The Gazette asked, “In the majority of police-related killings of Black people, the assailants are white. Is that enough to conclude that racism is the cause, or are their other causes also at work?” Bobo responded,

“Certainly racism, and both the historic legacy of racism and the long, deeply etched legacy of racism in terms of our current social conditions and circumstances…have been profoundly distorted by racism.”

He continued,

“It’s really important to recall that what slavery did…was to forge a tight link between our social class structure and a kind of racial hierarchy. It created a bottom rung of people who were racially stigmatized and in the deepest economic disadvantage and poverty.”

Bobo co-authored a book entitled, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Attitudes_in_America/mPOWMEEKpY0C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Racial+Attitudes+in+America&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations</a>.” Chapter 3: Trends in White Racial Attitudes discusses six questions surrounding trends “of how white racial attitudes changed over the past half-century.” Regarding affirmative action, Bobo et al., stated,

“The first affirmative action steps had been attempts to eliminate what came to be called ‘institutional racism’...A second, more active type of affirmative step was to devote government funds to improving the lives of black Americans…Finally, a third and still more dramatic step was to give preference to blacks in employment and educational situations, as a way of…accelerating the move toward equality of outcomes.” 

Bobo was named among the “Top 10 Black Sociologists from the last 30 Years” in a publication from <a href="https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/black-scholars/sociologists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academic Influence</a>. Bobo’s profile is dated from 1900-present [sic], ranks him #79,953 “Most Influential Person,” and links to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob’s Wikipedia page</a>. Harvard’s Department of Sociology issued a “wholehearted endorsement” of <a href="https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/sociology/files/george_floyd_and_our_times.pdf?m=1591301322" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bobo’s statement on the death of George Floyd</a> in which Bobo said he was “encouraged by the level of mass mobilization and civil protest[s]” that took place across the United States and around the world.

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcella Alsan</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and Faculty affiliate in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alsan/files/cv_alsan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to her CV</a>, she’s taught in the fields of medicine, health research and policy, and economics since 2013.

From 2021 to 2022, Alsan served on the Committee on Improving the Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research at NASEM (<a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine</a>). According to the About page, NASEM is a nonprofit institution that “works to shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.”

Alsan and her committee <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/improving-the-representation-of-women-and-underrepresented-minorities-in-clinical-trials-and-research#sectionPublications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a study</a> that concluded, “While progress has been made with the representation of white women in clinical trials and clinical research, there has been little progress in the last three decades to increase participation of racial and ethnic minority population groups.”

Alsan also co-authored a paper titled “<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24787/w24787.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence From Oakland</a>.” Citing previous studies, the introduction says,

“African-American men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States and live on average 4.5 few years than non-Hispanic white men. Reasons for this disparity are multifactorial and include lack of health insurance, lower socioeconomic status, and structural racism.”

Alsan et al., further state,

“There are several ways in which racial diversity could play a role in medicine, specifically as it relates to the patient-doctor relationship. Taste-based discrimination on the part of the patient or doctor could imply that individuals are averse to interacting with those who do not share their racial background. On the other hand, internalized racism…could lead to the opposite phenomenon…” 

In 2020, Alsan <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/wiener-conference-calls/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined a Weiner Conference Call</a> to talk about the “economics of infectious diseases” where she discussed the Covid-19 virus, vaccines, and some research conducted by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s — the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) who was <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed for allegedly covering up origins of the Covid-19 pandemic</a>.

During the questions section, the moderator asked on behalf of a student, “‘Very open the terms ‘minorities’ and ‘marginalized communities’ are used interchangeably…During Covid-19, has it been important or relevant to make a distinction between the two groups from a policy point of view?’” 

Alsan gave a hesitant, incoherent response, “I think what…I work mostly in the United States and I think it’s important to think about who is historically disadvantaged, and, um, who might need…who [is] particularly vulnerable. Because simply being less than the majority doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be equally vulnerable.”

On October 17, 2022, the National Academy of Medicine <a href="https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-100-new-members-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Aslan as a newly elected member</a>. The announcement says she was elected for “her scholarly insights on understanding the origins of medical mistrust and the role it plays in understanding health disparities. Her work has shaped policy in addressing disparities…and improving messaging in reaching historically marginalized and vulnerable populations.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/people/shirley-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shirley Greene</a> is the Associate Dean of Students at the Harvard Extension School. She’s also a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - <a href="https://edib.harvard.edu/DCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Division of Continuing Education</a>. Her profile says she’s “dedicated to furthering diversity, inclusion, and belonging” at Harvard.

Dr. Greene’s primary role is the Title IX Resources Coordinator — a position that gives her unrestricted access to all complaints of sexual discrimination, as well as reports of retaliation or system issues that may continually raise once complaints are processed.

Dr. Greene is an affiliate and ally of Harvard’s <a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office for Gender Equity (OGE)</a>. The organization provides “professional training” to recognize, report, investigate and appeal sexual misconduct. The About page states, 

“The [OGE] empowers and supports the Harvard community to advance a climate of gender equity and inclusion through evidence-based educational initiatives, excellence in research and practice, and delivery of direct services.”

In a video titled “<a href="https://youtu.be/yCb5bUnfzMI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Brief History of Juneteenth,</a>” Dr. Greene begins her talk by asking, “What does Juneteenth mean to you?” She follows up by giving her interpretation of the holiday and says,’

“Juneteenth marks the day slavery officially ended in the United States on June 19, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to enslaved people in the Confederate states on January 1, 1863, following the four-year Civil War.”

She continued,

“However, it was a full two and half years before all states were compelled to honor this executive order, effectively freeing the 250,000 people still being held under slavery in Texas. We join you in giving this holiday the national recognition it deserves, while acknowledging that many members of the African-American community continue to struggle for the dignity, access, equality, equity, and inclusion that was envisioned by the Emancipation Proclamation.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/crystal-s-yang/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal S. Yang</a> holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is the Bennett Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her areas of interest include civil rights, law and equity, poverty law and economic justice.

Yang’s faculty appointment was announced in a 2019 article from <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-13-named-professor-of-law-at-harvard-law-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today</a>. The report says,

“Yang’s recent empirical projects focus on the effects of the bail system on defendants’ short and long-term outcomes, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the spillover effects of deportation fear, and the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system.”

Yang co-authored a study titled “<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/133/4/1885/5025665?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Bias in Bail Decisions</a>.” The abstract states, 

“We motivate our analysis using <a href="https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-gary-becker-saw-the-scourge-of-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[Gary] Becker’s model of racial bias</a>, which predicts that rates of pretrial misconduct will be identical for marginal white and marginal black defendants if bail judges are racially unbiased. In contrast, marginal white defendants will have higher rates of misconduct than marginal black defendants if the bail judges are racially biased…”

Yang et al., continued,

“We find suggestive evidence that racial bias is driven by bail judges relying on inaccurate stereotypes that exaggerate the relative danger of releasing black defendants.”

Yang was also featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Harvard Law Bulletin in an article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-an-empirical-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal Yang: An Empirical Approach: Making the Case for Criminal Justice Reform</a>.” The author said, “While pretrial detention is often justified as a crime deterrent, Yang and her colleagues found that it actually has a criminogenic effect.” Yang was credited with researching and developing “tools that judges could use to make more-informed decisions.”

In 2021, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-economic-costs-of-pretrial-detention/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brookings reported</a> Yang’s research on bail disparities led her to co-author a study that led to the conclusion of how “reducing pre-trial detention…would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals…their families and communities.”

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/alejandra-caraballo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Caraballo</a> is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Cyberlaw clinic. Caraballo is a transwoman — a biological male at birth who identifies as female — and prefers feminine pronouns. His Harvard University profile says,

“Alejandra previously served as the Secretary of the LGBTQ Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association and was appointed as the first openly trans community board member in Brooklyn. Alejandra's areas of interest include the intersection of technology and disability rights, [prostitution], and the implications of quantum computing on encryption.”

In July 2022, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19822" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform featured Caraballo</a> in a piece titled “Harvard Law instructor: ‘It is our civic duty to accost’ the ‘6 justices who overturned Roe.’” The article cites several Twitter posts, most of which are no longer available on his public profile:

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In November 2021 Caraballo was <a href="https://clinics.law.harvard.edu/blog/2021/08/meet-the-first-trans-women-of-color-to-teach-at-harvard-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a Harvard Law publication</a> titled “Meet the first trans woman of color to teach at Harvard Law.” He joined another man who identifies as a trans woman to discuss their positions at HLS. Harvard Law said, 

“Both instructors, who identify as Latina…are excited to start a new chapter at Harvard after dedicating years to LGBTQ+ legal and advocacy work. They are also both familiar with the unique pressure and emotional weight of their presence in the legal field — where systematic hurdles still block trans people from entry…”

Harvard Law continued,

“Requirements when taking the bar in some states…only allow applicants to be addressed with ‘Mr.’ or ‘Ms’ honorifics...The depth of details that students need to disclose before taking a bar exam…has historically ‘been a problem for trans people who wanted to break into the law...You’re essentially forced to out yourself to a bar committee,’ [Caraballo] said.”

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There is no moral difference between a business turning away a gay couple or an interracial couple. Both rely on refusing to do business because of their immutable identities. I can't see any rule that can differentiate between the two.
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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/diane-l-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Rosenfeld</a> is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Rosenfeld teaches a course titled <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/courses/bonobo-sisterhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bonobo Sisterhood</a>. A description for the class promises to explore “the power and potential of female alliances to disrupt patriarchal systems.” 

She has also written a book titled, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonobo-Sisterhood-Revolution-Through-Alliance/dp/0063085070" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bonobo Sisterhood Revolution Through Female Alliance</a>.” The description states that Rosenfeld will “harness the power of the #MeToo movement into a road map for sex equality” by analyzing the social relations of bonobo monkeys.

In the book, <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she writes</a>, “Racism and sexism go hand in hand…Each is based on white male supremacy and reflects a foundation in law authored by and judged over by, overwhelmingly, white men. White supremacist patriarchy places white men above everyone else.” 

Rosenfeld <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/20/bonobo-sisterhood-primate-ancestors-patriarchy-diane-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims these monkeys have no patriarchal roles</a>, “Evolutionarily, they have eliminated male sexual coercion.” Rosenfeld states, “A new idea of the bonobo sisterhood is to think about equality among women, not measuring our equality solely in relation to men.” 

She states that “Bonobos offer us a model for female sexuality outside of patriarchy,” but claims it will only work if “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white women get on board</a>.” Rosenfeld hopes to “let men know that stepping outside the harmful tropes of masculinity will be liberating and better for all.” 

Rosenfeld continues, “This calls for a serious reckoning—especially among white women—about racism and white supremacy. My hope is that this can contribute to a huge leap forward for humankind.” 

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Published - December 29, 2022
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Former CNN correspondent Brian Stelter is the <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/fellowships/walter-shorenstein-media-democracy-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Shorenstein Media &amp; Democracy Fellow</a> at the Harvard Kennedy School. Stelter joined the university’s Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy in the Fall of 2022. Details of Stelter's position were featured in a <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/stelter-shorenstein-fellow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard press release</a>:

“As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media. These discussions with media leaders, policymakers…and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.”

Stelter received the Walter Shorenstein appointment shortly after being terminated from his position as the host of CNN’s Reliable Sources (RS). The show ran for 30 years with Stelter at the helm from 2013 until its cancellation in August 2022. According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-taps-journalism-expert-brian-stelter-for-teaching-gig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, "Stelter was let go by CNN after its new chairman and CEO, Chris Licht, took the reins from Jeff Zucker, who encouraged Stelter to make criticism of right-wing media the focus of his show…”

In a video announcing his departure, Stelter said,

“As most of you know, CNN has a new owner. Warner Brothers Discovery is making big changes across the company. And there’s going to be more change all across the company including here at CNN. And I’m sad I won’t be here to cover it.”

He continued,

"This entire hour is a special hour and it's about change. It's about change all across the media world. What's changing, what might change, and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. You know I love this show, this small but mighty show that punched above its weight for so many years."

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In August 2020, Stelter <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hoax/PKv5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a book</a> titled“Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.” Publishers said the novel includes “never before reported details [that expose] the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt, profit outrageously by promoting the President’s propaganda and radicalizing the American right.”

Under the section subheading, The Cult, Stelter wrote,

“The MAGAsphere targeted journalists who pointed out Trump’s falsehoods and flubs. Fox’s truth-tellers faced some of the most vociferous attacks because they were perceived to be turncoats.“

He continued later in the chapter,

“Once unbound from the shackles of truth, Fox’s power came from what it decided to cover — its chosen narratives — and what it decided to ignore. Trump’s immature, erratic, and immoral behavior? His sucking up to Putin? His mingling of presidential business and personal profit? Fox talk shows played dumb and targeted the ‘deep state’ instead.”
Published January 11, 2023

<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/jason-bryan-silverstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Silverstein</a> is a Global Health and Social Medicine Lecturer and the Co-Director of Math of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School. In May 2022, one month before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, Silverstein submitted a narrative to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a39970410/abortion-saved-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Health Magazine</a>. The article retells the story of a woman who underwent an abortion procedure that allegedly saved her life. Silverstein introduced the publication by stating, 

“While many states will make exceptions for the life of the mother, medical emergency exceptions are not as clear as they may seem—how close to death does a woman have to be before an abortion is legal isn’t black-and-white…What is clear is that many women are alive today because they could have an abortion…”

The woman that Silverstein wrote to Men’s Health about was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy —a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a fertilized egg growing outside the uterus (i.e. in the fallopian tubes). The abnormality can cause severe internal bleeding and laparoscopic surgery (which usually results in terminating the pregnancy) is often required to successfully treat the issue.

In September of the same year, Men’s Health <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34044035/covid-19-need-real-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a Silverstein article with the title, “We Can’t Beat COVID-19 Without a 6-Week Lockdown.” Under the heading, “Why a lockdown is a reasonable move,” Silverstein said,

“By now the evidence is clear: lockdowns work. We know that strict lockdowns worked in China, slowing down how fast the virus spreads. In Wuhanm, the unprecedented 76-day lockdown, in which people were barred [from] leaving the city or their homes for once every three days for food, stopped new infections by two-thirds.”

After praising lockdown policies in Italy, France and New Zealand, he continued,

“The lack of any real lockdown plus patchwork of state policies feels like a strategy designed by the COVID virus itself…Just as cases started to surge in the summer, states decided to relax what orders they had…[B]ecause the first lockdowns were half-assed, now the need for a second may be a death sentence for some small businesses…

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<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/people/alex-keuroghlian-md-mph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Keuroghlian</a>, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Faculty Advisor for the LGBTQ+ and Allies at Harvard Medical School (<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAHMS</a>). Keuroghlian’s faculty profile says “[h]is clinical practice and research focus[es] on sexual and gender minority health.”

Keuroghlian is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-transgender-infants-intersex-540241339130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Keuroghlian’s course in a publication titled, “Harvard med school class isn’t about ‘trans infants.’” The source said, “Claim: A class at Harvard Medical School trains students to teach transgender infants. AP’s assessment: False. The Harvard class…discusses intersex infants in the context of their physical development…The portion of the course that focuses on infants does not cover gender identity or sexual orientation…”

The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Keuroghlian currently works as the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/search?Text=alex%20Keuroghlian&amp;Start=1&amp;MaxResults=10&amp;summary=context&amp;MethodName=getglobal&amp;PageNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; he’s accepting new patients in his clinic. 

Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surgical</a> Program. The former “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The latter “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”

Keuroghlian is the Director of the Division of Education and Training at Boston’s Fenway Institute in Boston. <a href="https://fenwayhealth.org/we-must-replace-psychiatric-gatekeeping-with-informed-consent-for-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a newsletter</a>—titled “We must replace psychiatric gatekeeping with informed consent for gender-affirming surgery”— the organization reflected on gender-affirming surgical protocols: 

“The prior standard requiring assessment of suitability for surgery by a mental health care professional was designed to prevent regret about undergoing surgical procedures [but]...regret for gender-affirming surgical procedures is very rare, and there is no evidence that presurgical mental health screening reduces rates of regret.”
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Alex Keuroghlian, MD MPH <a href="https://twitter.com/FenwayHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FenwayHealth</a> on threats toward youth pursuing gender-affirming care, their families, and medical providers. <a href="https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q">https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q</a> <a href="https://t.co/yW2K1nuWSI">pic.twitter.com/yW2K1nuWSI</a>
— MGH Psychiatry (@MGHPsychiatry) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGHPsychiatry/status/1620266773290582017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Alberto Puig is the <a href="https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/people/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Dean</a> for Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/18740/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Puig’s MGH profile shows he’s a hospitalist who treats adults. However, Puig is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. 

The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program">Surgical</a> Program. 

The health program “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The surgical program  “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/team/gaurab-basu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaurab Basu</a> is a physician and co-founder of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy as well as an instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). His university profile also says he co-directed a social medicine course and served on an anti-racism task force.

Basu is an outspoken proponent of climate change who advocates for removing gas powered appliances from modern homes.

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No gas into the house. Gas meter removed! <a href="https://t.co/bSqPC3GOST">pic.twitter.com/bSqPC3GOST</a>
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620206106562936832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Heating rooms and water cause the greatest emissions so heat pumps and a water heater heat pump is best to start. But yes the stove causes most indoor pollution. I should have an op Ed coming out next week to say more! Boston Standard company is great and coordinated everything.
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620219734091522049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, Basu <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/united-nations-climate-change-report-heat-east-coast-20210810.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial titled</a>, “Amid devastating climate report and heat waves coming our way, we need courage.” In the article, Basu said he sympathized with students who described their emotions toward climate change as “doom, fear, hopelessness, and paralysis.”

He stated, “As a doctor, I live with the clear understanding that as climate change bears down upon us, it will continue to threaten my patients’ health…Our planet is in a precarious situation…More importantly, activists worldwide have galvanized attention to climate change.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/3/hms-climate-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a>, "Harvard Medical School voted [in January 2023] to embed climate change into the school’s curriculum…The effort was led by Basu…and a group of students from the HMS organization Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine."

The Crimson also said, “The curriculum change aims to integrate climate change themes throughout students’ medical school education rather than creating new courses specifically around climate change.”

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Published February 16, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sogie/sogie-team/tishelman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Tishelman</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She’s also the Director of Clinical Research in the Behavioral Health, Endocrinology and Urology Program, and Gender Multispecialty Service at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Tishelman’s HMS profile says she was “selected by the World Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) to be the international lead developing new global standards of care for prepubescent children.”

Tishelman, along with several “transgender specialists,” authored WPATH’s “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8</a>.” The publication was intended to “provide clinical guidelines for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort…”

Addressing gender identity in minor patients, Tishelman et al., stated:

“Our understanding of gender identity development in adolescence is continuing to evolve…For some youth, gender identity development appears fixed and is often expressed from a young age, while for others there may be a developmental process that contributes to gender identity development over time.”

The authors’ “Statement of Recommendation”  for healthcare professionals includes:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“...possess a general knowledge of gender diversity across the lifespan.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">…develop expertise in autism spectrum disorders and other neurodiversity or collaborate with an expert with relevant expertise when working with autistic/neurodivergent, gender-diverse children.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">...respond supportively to children who desire to be acknowledged as the gender that matches their internal sense of gender identity.”</li>
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According to Tishelman et al., “At present, no clinical cohort studies have reported on profiles of adolescents who regret their initial decision or detransition after irreversible affirming treatment.”

Tishelman was a panel speaker during WPATH’s <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Upcoming%20Conferences/2022/WPATH%202022%20Prospectus%20Final.pdf?_t=1649279057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27th Scientific Symposium</a> in September 2022. WPATH’s stated goal is to work to “further the understanding of the range of interventions, modalities, medical and surgical gender-affirming treatments” while providing “opportunities for professionals to…communicate with each other in the context of research and treatment of gender incongruence…”

A portion of Tishelman’s Symposium presentation—where she admitted to manipulating age restriction information to avoid industry lawsuits— was leaked to social media:

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Published - July 5, 2023

<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 9, 2023

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Johnson</a> is the Winthrop Professor of History and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Johnson’s focus areas are “slavery, capitalism and imperialism in the nineteenth century.” His <a href="https://college.harvard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-spotlights/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Spotlight</a> profile states: 

“As Johnson approaches his work, he is fueled not only by <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/michael-brown-killed-by-police-ferguson-mo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events in Ferguson</a> and his work in St. Louis but also the current reckoning over American racism and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/17/west-is-relevant-our-long-history-anti-blackness-not-just-south/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post op-ed</a> titled “The West is relevant to our long history of anti-blackness, not just the South,” Johnson wrote:
“While we commonly think of slavery, sharecropping and segregation in the South as driving anti-blackness in American history, the process of western expansion, with the attendant notion of ‘the white man’s country,’ that undergirded the development of cities such as St. Louis and the United States, is equally essential to explaining the power and persistence of anti-blackness today.”
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On November 15, 2023, Johnson was featured in <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/15/faculty-condemn-president-gay-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> publication titled “More than 100 Harvard Faculty Sign Letter Criticizing President [Claudine] Gay’s Censure of Pro-Palestine Slogan.” The Crimson stated:

“[Johnson], a History professor and the first listed signatory on the letter, confirmed in an email that the letter was referring to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/11/thayer-proctor-relief-of-duties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elom Tettey-Tamaklo</a>, a Harvard doctor who was relieved of his position after appearing in a video confrontation at a “die-in” supporting Palestine at Harvard Business School.”

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Johnson et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send information on Walter Johnson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/kirsten-weld" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirsten Weld</a> is a Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research “explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.” 

On November 9, 2023, Weld took to X/Twitter to protest Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s notice condemning antisemitism. In response to Gay’s criticism of the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” —which overtly calls for the extermination of Jewish people—Weld said she “Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation…”
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Via email from the president of <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>, my employer. Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation like this, or having one singular "specific historical meaning" imputed to it, in my 11 years on this campus. <a href="https://t.co/NlW5V0AoQB">pic.twitter.com/NlW5V0AoQB</a>
— Kirsten Weld (@kirstenweld) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstenweld/status/1722731996818842097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Weld is listed as the second signatory of more than 100 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/harvarduniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard professors</a> who <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter</a> demanding that Gay “[resist] calls to suspend and/or decertify the Palestinian Solidarity Committee in retaliation for its public statements and advocacy…” 

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Weld et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Weld’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the Fall 2023 term.

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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jennifer-hochschild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Hochschild</a> is a Professor of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her faculty profile states, “Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration—as well as educational and social welfare policies.”

On January 13, 2024, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/harvard-professor-forced-to-awkwardly-backtrack-after-denigrating-harvard-grads-in-attempted-own-on-conservative-writer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite News wrote</a>, “Professor [Hochschild] faced major backlash to a message she posted on [Twitter] about writer and activist Christopher Rufo, who was a key figure in the revelations about now-ousted Harvard president <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay’s</a> past plagiarism.”

Despite Hochschild’s work being reportedly plagiarized by Gay, Hochschild made no attempts to point out the former Harvard president’s lack of integrity.
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On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have “master’s degree from Harvard,” which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School? Those students are great - I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1743135440729694434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Does Chris Rufo have a 2nd agenda, beyond pushing Pres. Gay out of Harvard presidency?
"I think the entire corporation needs to resign as well as President Gay," Rufo said in an interview. "I would be happy to join the corporation to help turn it around."
-- Wall St J., 12.29/23
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1741124183088664601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Hochschild in an undated article titled “Harvard Prof. Hochschild Apologizes For Comments on Rufo Extension School Degree.” The Crimson said, “In a series of posts earlier this month, Hochschild…suggested that [Rufo]…had misrepresented his master’s degree from the [Harvard] Extension School.”

On <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her Twitter page</a>, Hochschild ranted about courses at the Harvard Extension School (HES). She also expressed “regret” that her posts “dragged” colleagues and students “into a dispute.”

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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to The Crimson</a>, “The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) appeared to address Hochschild’s remarks in a statement, writing that they ‘are deeply concerned and disappointed by the recent comments made by [Hochschild]...Generalizations that denigrate HES students do more than unjustly diminish individual achievements; they erode the foundational values of diversity, respect, and academic rigor that are essential to the fabric of Harvard University…”

Hochschild has since issued an apology to HES students prompting this response from Rufo:
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This is awesome. You dumped on your own school in an attempt to delegitimize my degree, then turned around and said it is, in fact, a wonderful, rigorous, and bona fide Harvard degree. You made a fool of yourself not once, but twice. That takes commitment. 🫡
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1745925508616061093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Please send information on Jennifer Hochschild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 23, 2024

<a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=271812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francesca Gino</a> is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Gino’s faculty profile shows her on administrative leave with no return date listed.

Gino made headlines after she was accused of falsifying research data. Gino’s lawyer has publicly stated that Harvard lacked evidence for its allegations.

On March 16, 2024, <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/harvard-honesty-professor-allegedly-tampered-data-and-should-be-fired" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just The News</a> featured Gino in an article entitled “Harvard honesty professor allegedly tampered with data and should be fired, according to probe.” Just The News said, “[Gino], considered a star behavioral scientist … allegedly tweaked observations in four of her studies to boost her hypothesis.”

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty-tampered-with-data-and-should-be-fired-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported on the university’s findings, stating, “The university report detailed that Harvard began a preliminary investigation of Gino’s work in October 2021 after the Data Colada researchers brought their concerns about the papers’ sketchy data to the school.”

The Post continued, “A full probe was conducted in 2022 and 2023, with three [Harvard] faculty members interviewing Gino and people who worked with her on the papers, in addition to reviewing her data, emails, and papers’ manuscripts. An outside forensics firm also was hired to analyze her studies’ data.”

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/15/gino-harvard-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> reported that the university’s report recommended Gino’s termination. The source said, “The report says that Gino asserted that ‘an unknown actor with malicious intentions was a more plausible explanation than honest errors or intentional data falsification by herself.’”

The source said, “The investigation concluded that Gino had ‘significantly departed from accepted practices of the relevant research community and committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly.’”

Gino has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard Business School claiming that she has undergone “reputational damage along with loss of income and career opportunities,” according to the New York Post. 

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring this story. Please send tips and information on Francesca Gino to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 18, 2024

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/timothy-patrick-mccarthy">Timothy Patrick McCarthy</a> is a Lecturer on Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

According to his faculty profile, McCarthy “is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration.” He also “teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters.” 

McCarthy is an “award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fire-professors-who-oppose-gender-affirming-care-harvard-faculty-chair-says/">The College Fix</a>, McCarthy was interviewed by <a href="https://nyunews.com/features/news/2025/02/24/affiliates-tied-to-anti-trans-practices/">Washington Square News</a> and stated that professors who oppose “gender-affirming” care should be “removed and stripped of their academic titles.”

In the interview, McCarthy stated “there’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world.”

The College Fix wrote to McCarthy for further information. His response was confrontational:

“I see what you’re doing here—it’s a tired, ancient playbook—and I hope you know that you have picked a fight with the wrong veteran of these culture wars,” McCarthy responded.

McCarthy told Washington Square News, those who question the validity of gender-affirming care “poison the waters” around the practice of “transgender” care. 

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/14/harvard-professor-calls-for-the-firing-of-any-faculty-not-supporting-gender-affirming-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing the comments of McCarthy. According to Turley, the professor “was targeting two professors at NYU who are affiliated with groups critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.” 

In 2017, McCarthy made the following comments about the play <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-timothy-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a> “Hamilton”, alleging that the US founding was a matter of whiteness and masculinity. Certain characters based on US Founders are considered queer: 

“[T]his is a very masculine play, and the traditional reading of the founding is not just white but also male. The two characters that are most queer include Thomas Jefferson, who is widely criticized as a slave owner and a hypocrite and this Prince-like, purple-clad dandy who returns from Paris and asks, ‘What did I miss? What did I miss?’ and prances across the stage. The other queer character in ‘Hamilton’ is King George III, who shows up every once in awhile to bring a little sass and strut his stuff, and then leaves.” 
Published - March 17, 2025

Anti-Law Enforcement

Yanilda Gonzalez

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<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/joseph-cochran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph (Joey) Cochran</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Wheaton College. According to his university profile, Cochran teaches numerous courses including “American History to 1865,” “American History Since 1865,” and “The Rise of Evangelicalism.”
In October 2023, Cochran penned an article titled “The Israel-Hamas Attack and the Evangelical Christian Response.” He believes, “Israel has the right to seek restitution and justice for the international crimes committed against its people, but Israel should not be permitted to commit pernicious war crimes themselves as they achieve their aims.”
Cochran also believes the <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2023/10/the-israel-hamas-attack-and-the-evangelical-christian-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lands given to Palestine should be protected from Israel</a> and, if necessary, the Gerald F. Ford Carrier Strike Group should be used “as a deterrent to restrain Israel from overreach.”
Professor Cochran disagrees with many evangelical Christians who, through their public statements, have indicated a “united front against Hamas and unequivocal support of Israel.” He claims, “The current escalating rhetoric and tenor of evangelical Christians, who have invested themselves in this conflict, has tipped toward religiously prejudicial and genocidal attitudes.”
Cochran discusses the Just War theory, defined by Russell Moore as a theory “which holds that war is always awful, but—under certain, very limited circumstances—can be morally justified.” In response, Cochran writes:
“Just War theory has long been employed by evangelicals and the U.S. to justify and cultivate an industry complex of war. While Just War theory is a helpful premise to protect one’s people, it also can be used as an exploitative means to opportunistically justify offensives that gain territorial and material advantages.” 
Three days after posting the article, he <a href="https://twitter.com/Ptr_StephenFein/status/1713665678224523655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on an <a href="https://twitter.com/jtcochran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account that has now been made private</a>:
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This is not the first time Cochran has shared his thoughts on “white privilege.” In April 2023, he wrote an article titled, “<a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2023/04/second-amendment-rights-is-about-protecting-white-supremacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Amendment Rights Is About Protecting White Supremacy</a>.” He believes that firearm possession throughout history has been a “racialized phenomenon.” He writes:
“Though microbial pathogens played their role in wiping out Amerindians across the Eastern Woodlands to the Great Lakes basin, the gun trade played its role in Indian on Indian genocidal acts of gun violence, no different than how Whites have apathetically viewed black on black gun violence in predominantly black communities during the latter twentieth and early twenty-first century.” 
He argues that the real reason people are against giving up their Second Amendment rights is due to the “disempowering effect it has for white men.”
“While many people think and argue that preserving this right is about protecting the right to sports, like marksmanship or hunting, or preserving the right to defend one’s home, in reality, the unspoken reason is that this right is symbolic of the sacred idol of white supremacy in our history.” 
“Altering this law is an admission that white men no longer have the power to protect their lives from ‘others’ who threaten them, and they no longer have the right to manipulate gun policy to protect their power, or, when all else fails, to take the lives of those they historically despised as heathens or oppressed as slaves.”
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<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/esau-mccaulley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Esau McCaulley</a> is an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College.

Dr. McCaulley recently wrote a book titled <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reading-While-Black-American-Interpretation/dp/083085486X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Reading While Black.”</a> The Atlantic describes the book as grappling with the question of how God “views racism and police violence, and how Christians can find hope in moments of profound grief about how Black people are treated in America.”

In October 2020, Dr. McCaulley <a href="https://www.holypost.com/post/425-reading-the-bible-while-black-with-esau-mccaulley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared on a podcast called the Holy Post</a> to discuss his new book. Chapter 2 of the book is titled “New Testament and the Theology of Policing.” Dr. McCaulley discussed how Christians focus on Romans 13’s command to submit to ruling authorities. However, he says that the apostle Paul, the assumed author of the book of Romans, builds this premise on the idea that if you have done nothing evil, then you have nothing to fear. He goes on to say that black Americans who have done nothing wrong have to live in fear and that it is “intellectually dishonest” to say otherwise.

Dr. McCaulley writes an op-ed column for the New York Times. In April 2021, he wrote an op-ed titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210421013748/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/opinion/derek-chauvin-verdict-floyd.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“How I’m Talking to My Kids About the Derek Chauvin Verdict.”</a> In the article, he discusses how “cruel America can be to Black bodies” and his relief that Derek Chauvin was found guilty.

In the same op-ed, he mentions how he has recently begun his Wheaton classes with discussions of anti-Asian racism, the events that took place at the Capitol on January 6th, and officer-involved shootings.

In a similar op-ed from May 2020—titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210822122943/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/opinion/ahmaud-arbery-justice.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Ahmaud Arbery and the America That Doesn’t Exist”</a>—he discusses how he fears going for runs in predominantly white neighborhoods. He talks about the distrust that Black people feel towards the justice system and appeals for the country to “take responsibility for its devaluation of blackness and its complicity in violence against black bodies.” He also shares his belief that black people in America are seen as menaces instead of “fully human beings.”

In July 2021, he wrote a column titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220417192346/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/18/opinion/racism-christianity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism.”</a> In the article, he says that racism is still alive and well in the United States. Dr. McCaulley says that Christians should consider that they may have biases that they’re unaware of and that training in potential hidden biases could be an opportunity for growth.

In an article for the Washington Post titled <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/09/23/why-it-matters-if-your-bible-was-translated-by-racially-diverse-group/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Why it matters if your Bible was translated by a racially diverse group,”</a> Dr. McCaulley argues that women and people of color often have not been included in the translation process. He advocates for black churches to join with other Christians of color and sympathetic white churches to write their own translation of the Bible.

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You can contact Wheaton College by phone at (630)-752-5000. 
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<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/nathan-cartagena/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Luis Cartagena</a> is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. Dr. Cartagena has dedicated his career to teaching Christians critical race theory (CRT) and advocates for the Church to adopt it as standard, Christian doctrine. 

In the article, “<a href="https://www.worldoutspoken.com/articles-blog/is-your-bible-anti-black" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Your Bible Anti-Black?</a>,” he accuses the King James Version (KJV) of containing “anti-blackness.” Dr. Cartagena writes that as the Bible was translated into Western languages “white supremacy, anti-blackness,” and ”European Imperialism” were embedded into the KJVs. He recommends that diverse teams of ethnic, racial, and cultural scholars be formed to purge the “historic idolatry of whiteness” from the KJV and other biblical translations.         

In an article for <a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/critical-race-theory-christians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faithfully Magazine</a>, Dr. Cartagena writes that CRT is necessary to understand that America is a “racialized society.” Lamenting that many preachers won’t adopt anti-racist practices, Cartagena describes this as the Church’s “betrayal” against the “racialized minority.” 

Dr. Cartagena insists that Christians share common interests with critical race theorists. As Christ called his followers to stand with the marginalized, he writes, Christians must now stand with oppressed minorities:  

“How should Christians respond to these common interests and conclusions? They should begin by recalling that Christ and the apostles call the Church to foster justice and mercy, giving special attention to the marginalized and oppressed (see Matthew 25; James 1). Because marginalization and oppression in pigmentocracies operate along racialized lines, Christians should share the common interests of critical race theorists.” 

Critical race theory is an integral component of Dr. Cartagena’s faith. In a separate article, titled, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/i-found-christs-liberating-spirit-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Found Christ’s Liberating Spirit on Critical Race Theory</a>,” he states that CRT was necessary to “decolonize” his mind. Dr. Cartagena writes that his love for God grew only after learning of the Church’s “racist colonial and imperial practices.” 

During a separate interview for the online magazine, “<a href="https://sojo.net/articles/why-nathan-cartagena-teaches-critical-race-theory-evangelicals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sojourners</a>,” Dr. Cartagena states that he felt “prompted by the spirit” to teach CRT. He further characterizes the Holy Spirit of the Trinity as an “agent of race-conscious liberation.”

“I’m thinking in distinctively trinitarian terms about how the Spirit is actually an agent of race-conscious liberation. The Spirit is going to help us see these racialized structures.”

Dr. Cartagena describes many of his students as “racialized white folks” and resistant to anti-racist practices. CRT is therefore needed, or so he argues, to remove their false ideas from “white evangelical spaces.” 

Dr. Cartagena also berates white Christians, accusing them of upholding white supremacy within the church. In one tweet, he alleges that Christians worship the God of white supremacy. 
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White supremacy is a god that demands human sacrifice and gorges itself on the least of these.
And many worship it every Sunday.

— Caritas En La Lucha (@ProfeNLC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfeNLC/status/1495471340647817219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another article authored by Dr. Cartagena—titled, “<a href="https://faithfullymagazine.com/white-man-leading-party-church/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The White Man Leading the White Man’s Party and the White Church</a>”—he derides white evangelicals as ignorant for supporting conservatives for public office. He refers to the “white church” as a pejorative, accusing it of being complicit in conservatives’ “strategic gendered racism.” 

The Professor Watchlist Team worked reached out to Cartagena for comment but has not received a response prior to publication. 

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/faculty/joseph-cochran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph (Joey) Cochran</a> is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Wheaton College. According to his university profile, Cochran teaches numerous courses including “American History to 1865,” “American History Since 1865,” and “The Rise of Evangelicalism.”

In October 2023, Cochran penned an article titled “The Israel-Hamas Attack and the Evangelical Christian Response.” He believes, “Israel has the right to seek restitution and justice for the international crimes committed against its people, but Israel should not be permitted to commit pernicious war crimes themselves as they achieve their aims.”

Cochran also believes the <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2023/10/the-israel-hamas-attack-and-the-evangelical-christian-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lands given to Palestine should be protected from Israel</a> and, if necessary, the Gerald F. Ford Carrier Strike Group should be used “as a deterrent to restrain Israel from overreach.”

Professor Cochran disagrees with many evangelical Christians who, through their public statements, have indicated a “united front against Hamas and unequivocal support of Israel.” He claims, “The current escalating rhetoric and tenor of evangelical Christians, who have invested themselves in this conflict, has tipped toward religiously prejudicial and genocidal attitudes.”

Cochran discusses the Just War theory, defined by Russell Moore as a theory “which holds that war is always awful, but—under certain, very limited circumstances—can be morally justified.” In response, Cochran writes:
“Just War theory has long been employed by evangelicals and the U.S. to justify and cultivate an industry complex of war. While Just War theory is a helpful premise to protect one’s people, it also can be used as an exploitative means to opportunistically justify offensives that gain territorial and material advantages.” 
Three days after posting the article, he <a href="https://twitter.com/Ptr_StephenFein/status/1713665678224523655" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on an <a href="https://twitter.com/jtcochran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">account that has now been made private</a>:

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This is not the first time Cochran has shared his thoughts on “white privilege.” In April 2023, he wrote an article titled, “<a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2023/04/second-amendment-rights-is-about-protecting-white-supremacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Amendment Rights Is About Protecting White Supremacy</a>.” He believes that firearm possession throughout history has been a “racialized phenomenon.” He writes:
“Though microbial pathogens played their role in wiping out Amerindians across the Eastern Woodlands to the Great Lakes basin, the gun trade played its role in Indian on Indian genocidal acts of gun violence, no different than how Whites have apathetically viewed black on black gun violence in predominantly black communities during the latter twentieth and early twenty-first century.” 
He argues that the real reason people are against giving up their Second Amendment rights is due to the “disempowering effect it has for white men.”
“While many people think and argue that preserving this right is about protecting the right to sports, like marksmanship or hunting, or preserving the right to defend one’s home, in reality, the unspoken reason is that this right is symbolic of the sacred idol of white supremacy in our history.” 
“Altering this law is an admission that white men no longer have the power to protect their lives from ‘others’ who threaten them, and they no longer have the right to manipulate gun policy to protect their power, or, when all else fails, to take the lives of those they historically despised as heathens or oppressed as slaves.”
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Published - November 3, 2023

Anti-2nd Amendment

Racial Ideology

Antisemitism

Joseph Cochran

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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/novakdn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vesna Dominika Novak</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. Novak — a male formerly known as Domen — now identifies as female and uses “she/her” pronouns. According to his university profile, Novak’s interests include “rehabilitation robotics, wearable robotics, virtual reality, serious games, affective computing, and human activity recognition.”
In November 2023, Novak and two other researchers received a $213,878 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a smartphone app to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/nih-awards-200k-to-researchers-creating-transgender-voice-training-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help transgender men sound like women</a>. The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/9hRsKQVyakaKSCkPwM0_gA/project-details/10788947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project abstract</a> states:
“Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public. One reason for this is voice dysphoria: distress because a person’s voice does not match their gender identity (e.g., trans women with deep voices).”
“One way to provide more accessible GAVT (gender-affirming voice and communication training) would be through smartphone- or computer-based software that delivers information about voice, suggests exercises, and provides feedback on exercise performance.” 
The study will <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/biden-admin-trans-voice-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruit 40 biological men who identify as transgender</a> to meet online every week, use the researchers’ “prototype” app, and complete homework. The project started in December 2023 and is scheduled to run through November 2025.
In 2022, Novak co-authored a 57-question survey in the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199722000686?dgcid=author" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Voice</a> that interviewed “transgender and gender-diverse” people. The survey found that participants “were positive about the idea of a [voice training] app and considered it more accessible and less dysphoria-inducing than human coaches as well as more effective than self-guided training.”
After the survey was released, Novak was interviewed by <a href="https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/04/uc-professor-says-transgender-and-gender-diverse-people-may-benefit-from-a-proper-voice-training-app.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UC News</a>, where he stated:
“Voice training is training fundamentally. A lot of people will do it for two hours and give up. It is like weight loss for two hours. You don’t get anything from that. But if you do this long term you will see results. It works if you do it well enough and long enough. Most people can’t figure out how to do it well.” 
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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/tichavaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antar Akari Tichavakunda</a> is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati. According to his university biography, his research focuses on college readiness, black students’ experiences at predominantly white institutions, and the sociology of race and higher education.

Tichavakunda wrote a June 2022 op-ed for Inside Higher Ed titled, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/30/academic-integrity-issues-are-not-race-neutral-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Let’s Talk About Race and Academic Integrity.”</a> In this article, he argues that “Black and Latinx” students are <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harmed by exam surveillance, zero-tolerance policies, and fraternities and sororities.</a> He says that proctoring software doesn’t always work correctly for those who have darker skin and that the “algorithms and codes structuring such technologies can perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.”

Tichavakunda also believes that zero-tolerance plagiarism and academic integrity policies harm “Black and Latinx” students because the people who decide what is considered punishable are not “race-neutral.” He states:
“Decision makers, from faculty members to student conduct officers, hold beliefs about identity that - if uninterrogated - could potentially be racist and discriminatory.” 
Lastly, he claims that test banks, the cheat sheets made for exams by sororities and fraternities, are unfair to minorities because “the members of the oldest organizations with the largest test banks are predominantly white.”

In another Inside Higher Ed op-ed, titled <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/08/22/affirmative-action-probably-dead-whats-next-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Affirmative Action Is Probably Dead: Now What,”</a> he argues that “universities committed to the ideals of racial justice” should require “their applicants to think and act on issues of racial justice.” He suggests that universities could require all applicants to have completed an ethnic studies course or to include a statement of their commitment to racial justice on their application.
“Though universities may soon be denied the ability to consider race in admissions, they can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” 
Tichavakunda believes that racial injustice is one of the “most pervasive and persistent challenges of our time” and that universities must consider race if they want to be “caretakers of democracy.”

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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/andrewm7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mel Andrews</a> is an instructor and PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. According to <a href="http://mel-andrews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her website</a>, she previously taught courses such as “Introduction to Cognitive Studies” and “Medical Ethics.”

Campus Reform reported Andrews wrote on her Twitter that <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“intelligence is a White man’s mythology.”</a> In a lengthy thread dated February 23, 2021, Andrews says:

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She then writes:

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Andrews then attached an <a href="https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1364395418105356288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excerpt from a chapter</a> she wrote for a book titled “Handbook of Parenting.” In her chapter, she cited works claiming “more than a century of wanton reductionism and definitional vagueness in the study of intelligence and human potential has perpetuated a stratified social order and obscured the true dynamic complexity and diversity of human cognitive development.”

The full Twitter thread <a href="https://twitter.com/bayesianboy/status/1364383079968739333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1364383079968739333%7Ctwgr%5E36878b6749e7b6e7e41940c97ea815b760b7cf65%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D17083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here.</a>

In an interview with Campus Reform, Andrews said, “I was addressing a phenomenon that I have noticed to be common in academic philosophy wherein individuals emphasize the intelligence of minority scholars and students over the quality of the work they produce.”

She added:
“It is the same phenomenon that occurs when a white instructor says to a Black student, in a surprised tone, ‘oh, you’re so articulate!’ It implies an expectation that Black students will be ineloquent. It was not - as is contextually obvious from what I had initially posted - a condemnation of intelligence ascriptions simpliciter.” 
Campus Reform adds that Andrews asked to be referred to as a “Marxist and anarcho-syndicalist” with “they/them/theirs” pronouns.
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Published - November 23, 2022 
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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/nippermi">Melanie Rose Nipper</a> is an Adjunct Professor with Miami University and the University of Cincinnati (UC). As stated in her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-nipper-18b811243/">LinkedIn</a> profile, Melanie is a passionate advocate for DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) and education. According to UC records, she was contracted by the department of <a href="https://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/wgss.html">Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> to teach a “<a href="https://classes.catalyst-services.uc.edu/search/">Gender in Pop Culture</a>” course.

According to a report by <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2023/06/08/olivia-krolczyk-professor-university-cincinnati-assignment-failed-women-studies/70295104007/">The Enquirer</a>, Nipper has become the center of a controversy after a previous student released a TikTok about her course.

Olivia Krolczyk, the student who posted the video, was given a failing grade on a proposal for Nipper’s class. The student shared that her proposal was centered around the argument that, “trans athletes competing in women’s sports were taking opportunities away from biological women.”

To Olivia’s surprise, she was given a failing grade on this proposal for describing the people that were born a woman as “biological women.”

When asked about this incident, Nipper responded, “This is unacceptable based on the community, the marginalized individuals that are at stake, and also the foundations of the course.” She continued, saying that when a student uses ‘outdated terminology,’ she feels it is necessary to correct those mistakes: “Not a zero for the course… A zero for an assignment.”

<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/loadenml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Loadenthal</a> is an Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Cincinnati. According to his <a href="https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academia.edu profile</a>, Loadenthal also “serves as the Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (Georgetown University), the Executive Director of the Prosecution Project, and an open-source investigator and social movement trainer.”

In 2021, Loadenthal spoke at an“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRbXNvwSROE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Extremism, Rhetoric and Democratic Precarity</a>” roundtable at the University of Dayton’s “Social Practice of Human Rights Conference.” During this talk, he presented “The Pyramid of Far-Right Radicalization.”

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In Loadenthal’s presentation, the descriptive text at the bottom of the picture was not visible. However, his notes visible on the screen read:
“So today we’re talking about the modern far-right, which depending on who you ask, can include things as mundane as the Heritage Foundation, all the way up to underground cells of militants. I like the use of this 4-part taxonomy, although I disagree with some of the groups’ placements.” 
When asked about the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/university-program-linking-christians-republicans-nazis-granted-dhs-funds-part-anti-terror-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sourcing of the graphic</a>, Loadenthal noted that he did not create it; rather, “I found it a helpful conceptual scaffolding and used it.”

Loadenthal spoke at another University of Dayton event, a “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6tFQMnL14" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Nationalism Seminar</a>.” In this talk, he seemingly <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/01/meet-the-violent-anarchist-behind-dhss-pyramid-of-far-right-radicalization-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to being a member of Antifa</a> and discussed how in his “younger years,” he engaged in “direct confrontation” with alleged white supremacists.
“We organized largely through networks - today people would call Antifa, at the time it was known as anti-racist action - to follow white supremacists where they go, to outnumber them, and then to physically confront them and deny them the space to physically meet in public. This is the idea of de-platforming. I worked in that realm for a long time.” 
He also spoke to attendees about how to securely dox people, detailing “how he uses a VPN, burner phones, encrypted communications, and ‘sock puppet’ accounts to dox people.”
“We contact employers, landlords, commanding officers, school officials, family, clergy, and we pressure service providers [PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Amazon etc.] … and people will kick people off.” 
During a question-and-answer portion of the discussion, Loadenthal was asked how people can help his work. He responded, “Donate money…We have defense funds because we get into trouble. A lot of the things we’re doing are illegal…a lot of it involves breaking the law.”

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Published - September 15, 2023

<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/novakdn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vesna Dominika Novak</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. Novak — a male formerly known as Domen — now identifies as female and uses “she/her” pronouns. According to his university profile, Novak’s interests include “rehabilitation robotics, wearable robotics, virtual reality, serious games, affective computing, and human activity recognition.”

In November 2023, Novak and two other researchers received a $213,878 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a smartphone app to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/nih-awards-200k-to-researchers-creating-transgender-voice-training-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help transgender men sound like women</a>. The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/9hRsKQVyakaKSCkPwM0_gA/project-details/10788947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project abstract</a> states:
“Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public. One reason for this is voice dysphoria: distress because a person’s voice does not match their gender identity (e.g., trans women with deep voices).”
“One way to provide more accessible GAVT (gender-affirming voice and communication training) would be through smartphone- or computer-based software that delivers information about voice, suggests exercises, and provides feedback on exercise performance.” 
The study will <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/02/biden-admin-trans-voice-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruit 40 biological men who identify as transgender</a> to meet online every week, use the researchers’ “prototype” app, and complete homework. The project started in December 2023 and is scheduled to run through November 2025.

In 2022, Novak co-authored a 57-question survey in the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0892199722000686?dgcid=author" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Voice</a> that interviewed “transgender and gender-diverse” people. The survey found that participants “were positive about the idea of a [voice training] app and considered it more accessible and less dysphoria-inducing than human coaches as well as more effective than self-guided training.”

After the survey was released, Novak was interviewed by <a href="https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/04/uc-professor-says-transgender-and-gender-diverse-people-may-benefit-from-a-proper-voice-training-app.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UC News</a>, where he stated:
“Voice training is training fundamentally. A lot of people will do it for two hours and give up. It is like weight loss for two hours. You don’t get anything from that. But if you do this long term you will see results. It works if you do it well enough and long enough. Most people can’t figure out how to do it well.” 
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Published - February 22, 2024

LGBTQ

Vesna Dominika Novak

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3723615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mellissa Linton</a> is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation. She specializes in women and gender studies, reproductive justice, comparative race and ethnic studies, and materialist feminism.
Dr. Linton reacted to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by <a href="https://malcs.org/blog/2022/07/14/malcs-roe-v-wade-letter-statements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling the decision</a> “a class and racially motivated tragedy.” She defends Roe v. Wade calling it “legal security for women.” However, she does criticize the language of Roe v. Wade for leaving out trans and disabled people and forcing them into a secondary role.
According to Linton, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a class issue because it promotes traveling to other states as the exclusive means to access abortion. Further, she claims that it is also a racial issue that impacts family planning for what she calls “reproductive people.”
In another article, she states that “though the U.S. has not yet <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/06/14/el-salvador-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminalized abortion</a> nationally, there is legal precedent to do so.” She cites bills banning abortion between six and fifteen weeks in 13 states as a strategic move toward national abortion bans. Although, in the same article, she claims that “combatting abortion bans in the U.S. will be difficult because states exert their own jurisdiction over abortion laws.”
Included at the bottom of her article is a <a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/vHwGbWEOKEGn8oRohNE-EA2#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">link to a petition</a> titled “we have had abortions.” The stated goal of the petition is to show legislators that women who have had abortions or support abortions will not give up abortion rights. Tucked into the bottom of the petition is a small text box dedicated to abortion stories. Women or “reproductive people” can post their personal abortion stories to the publication.
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Arizona State University Professor David Boyles—who <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while”—appeared to physically assault a Turning Point USA Frontlines cameraman.  

TPUSA’s Frontlines team confronted Boyles after <a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learning</a> that he founded the Arizona chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour. Boyles refused to respond to the Frontlines reporter who asked how long he’d had the obsession with sex education and why he felt children should be exposed to drag queens.

The video of Boyles assaulting the cameraman can be viewed below:
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🚨ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video 🚨
Our TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed “sex education obsessed” queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,… <a href="https://t.co/YJWBEzSgRx">pic.twitter.com/YJWBEzSgRx</a>

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1712691864850317436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Security camera footage shows Boyles initiating physical contact:

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Following the attack of the TPUSA staff member, Boyles posted the following statement on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.boyles3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>: 

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According to<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/10/asu-professor-who-founded-drag-story-hour-assaults-reporter-claims-hes-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AZ Free News</a>, “Boyles accused the TPUSA men of terrorism for filming him while asking him questions…Boyles also stated on Instagram that he was jumped from behind by the TPUSA reporter.”

AZ Free News also reported, “The <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftempe-breaking%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fasu-police-investigating-after-queer-faculty-member-assaulted-in-tempe%2F71160761007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Republic</a> claimed in its headline that Boyles was targeted in a campus garage for his sexuality. The original headline read: ‘Targeted’: ASU Investigating After Queer Instructor Confronted by Turning Point USA ‘Crew.’”

12 News reports the incident from another angle as seen below:

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Turning Point USA said in a statement:
 Our team fully intends to share this footage with local law enforcement, and if our cameraman decides to press criminal charges against Professor Boyle, we will fully support that decision. @FrontlinesTPUSA
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Updated - October 19, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/280652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Boyles</a> is a Professor of English Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). His “areas of expertise” include but are not limited to “Rhetoric,” “Public Communication,” and “Gender Studies.”

<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AZ Free News</a> featured Boyles in an article titled “Meet the ASU Professor Behind Arizona’s Drag Queen Story Hour.” The source writes:

“Boyles established Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona in 2019, a chapter of the national Drag Queen Story Hour organization…Boyles has been featured in several ‘The Art of Drag’ events alongside one of his drag queen storytellers…The most recent event occurred on Wednesday [September 20, 2023].  During the <a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a>, Boyles said that the notion that drag shows are harmful to children was a ‘myth.’ He also said that drag queens have been long considered the leaders of LGBTQ+ communities.”

During “<a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Drag</a>” talk, Boyles claimed Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona has been “targeted by acts of violence” and “neo-Nazis showing up to disrupt events.” He also presented what he believed to be the beginning of drag culture in America using the newspaper clip featured below:

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On May 16, 2023, Boyles <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a blog</a> - “Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education” - in which he stated he was “trying to plant more queer joy in the world.” He also said:

“Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while…In 2021, I did a three-part ‘<a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queering-sex-ed-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering Sex Ed</a>’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.”

In the “Queer Sex Ed” blog, Boyles also wrote that sex education has been traditionally racist since “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”

In <a href="https://lookoutphx.substack.com/p/bomb-threat-made-against-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another publication</a> promoting his Drag Queen Story Hour initiative, Boyles said:

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<a href="https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/faculty-and-leadership/faculty/gilgerbio">Kristin Gilger</a> is the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism and the interim dean at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theres-No-Crying-Newsrooms-Learned/dp/1538121492">“There’s No Crying in Newsrooms”</a> and has served in various roles at ASU since 2002.

Gilger has been mired in controversy since assuming her role as dean this past summer. The previous candidate, Sonya Forte Duhe, was replaced by Gilger after <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/after-tweet-supporting-good-police-officers-arizona-state-revokes-journalism-dean-offer/">her offer was rescinded by the university</a>. After tweeting an image that was considered too positive towards police officers, Duhe was condemned by university faculty for showing “poor judgment.”

Gilger has come under fire after pressuring Rae’Lee Klein, a senior journalism major, and station manager for ASU’s Blaze radio, to resign from her position after <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/?preview_id=16209831">tweeting and soon deleting a New York Post article</a> detailing the warrant issued for Jacob Blake’s arrest;

“Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get to the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted“ 

Blake—who was wanted for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend—was shot in the back by police after resisting arrest and allegedly reaching for a knife on the floor of his car.

Facing immediate backlash for her tweet, the Board of Directors at the station <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet/">voted unanimously to remove her from her position</a>. Later releasing a statement, the board announced that “Blaze Radio firmly believes that Black Lives Matter.”

“The board gave Klein an opportunity to step down under her own will. As of the time of this statement, Klein has not made the decision to resign…In light of this, we do not recognize Rae'Lee Klein as the station manager of Blaze Radio.”  

Gilger has claimed that the University is not moving to remove Klein. In a statement to the New York Post, Gilger stated that Klein is not being targeted by the university for her views.

“Any actions that are unfolding are not punishment for a tweet. I have been clear with Rae’Lee that she would not be removed as station manager of Blaze Radio, a student internet radio station, because of the views she expressed,”  

However, in email exchanges between Klein and Gilger, she did in fact act to pressure Klein to resign, contrary to her statement.

In their exchange (pictured below) Gilger clearly states that Klein remaining in her position, “is not an option,” as she had lost the confidence of the board.

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Although suggesting new roles that Klein may assume, Gilger cites the "Media Guidelines for Student Journalists" to warn her to refrain in the future from posting information “that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist.” This seems to contradict Gilger’s claim that Klein was not being targeted by the university for her views.

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At this time, Klein has refused to step down from her role, and officially remains the station’s manager.

Update: In February of 2021, Klein announced that she <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-pays-settlement-conservative-student-ousted-manager-role/">has reached a settlement with Gilger</a> over a lawsuit she had filed against ASU several months prior.
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UPDATE: I am happy to announce we've reached a resolution with Arizona State University for events that took place in September. With the support of my attorney, Jack Wilenchik, and countless other individuals, I am proud to have stood up, fought back and eventually, won.
— Rae'Lee Klein (@RaeLeeKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaeLeeKlein/status/1365067995052085254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://newsroom.asu.edu/press/statement-latest-update-asu-and-klein-story-0">statement released by ASU</a>, the University agreed to pay Klein a total of $7,040 for "reimbursement of her school fees."

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Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asao Inoue</a> is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Science and Arts at Arizona State University. According to his University biography, Inoue’s <a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> focuses on “antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments.”

Prior to his role at Arizona State, Inoue served as the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Washington-Tacoma. As Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/college-writing-center-declares-american-grammar-a-racist-unjust-language-structure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Inoue <a href="\&quot;https://stjenglish.com/standing-against-racism-in-the-field-of-writing-dr-asao-inoue-uw-tacoma/\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> an anti-racist poster in an effort to ensure that his staff did not “embrace racist practices.” Inoue maintains that racism is embedded in the English language as well as in society itself, writing that “racism is the normal condition of things.

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According to the text of the poster, recorded by The College Fix, Inoue writes that his goal is to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-writing-center-combats-racist-unjust-language-structures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help students become more critical of “unjust language structures”</a> in order to succeed in what Inoue claims is a racist society.

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Inoue would later author a book on his beliefs titled, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.” In an excerpt from the book, Inoue declares that he focuses on grading students for their efforts, and not the “quality” of their writing.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

As Daily Wire reports, Inoue writes that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-state-dean-grading-writing-based-on-quality-is-racist-promotes-white-language-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beliefs and teaching practices are based on “critical-race theory,” or “labor-based theory.”</a>As Breitbart documents, c<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a> that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy.

He writes further that grading students only perpetuates white supremacy.

“The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist….Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools”

Inoue also draws an analogy between issuing grades for English and the institution of slavery, stating that grading is a “slave-making mechanism.”

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Inoue believes that even the physical proximity of white people causes racism. In a YouTube video of Inoue speaking before the 2019 Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Inoue <a href="https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY?t=994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states that even the presence of white people “perpetuates racism.</a>”

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Inoue delivered this speech while <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving as the Conference Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication</a>, which bills itself as the <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest professional organization for researching and teaching writing composition</a>. It is the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, which <a href="https://ncte.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts over 25,000 English and Language Arts teachers as members all over the country</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Inoue for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents May Contact Arizona State University at (855) 278-5080.
Updated - November 10, 2021

<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix</a>.

During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.

In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.

Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.

Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.

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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.

Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.

Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.

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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.

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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”

Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”

The full audio of the lecture is provided below.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Updated - October 26, 2021
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/888543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katelyn Cooper</a> is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biology Education Research for Arizona State University’s  Center for Biology and Society Program . 

In 2019, Cooper founded the “<a href="https://katelyncooper1.wixsite.com/bioedlab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Biology Education Research Lab</a>” because she, as a gay woman, was “worried about biology research not being inclusive enough of “LGBTQ+ people,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/inclusive-lab-for-lgbt-students-created-by-arizona-state-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix. </a>

Cooper is “upset that heterosexual white [men] dominate the biological sciences.” She told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/professor-making-biology-education-inclusive-lgbtq-undergrads-rcna28813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> that “The goal isn’t just to make classrooms more inclusive, she explained, but to bring more diversity to a field that has traditionally been dominated by straight white men.” 

Cooper also told NBC News her hopes for collegiate science education: “Cooper said science educators can make their classrooms more inclusive by being openly supportive of LGBTQ students.” According to Cooper, “Educators can, for example, put an inclusivity statement on their syllabus or website, foster safe environments for students to reveal their LGBTQ identities and familiarize themselves with on-campus LGBTQ resources in case students come to them for support.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="http://www.breannefahs.com/">Breanne Fahs</a>, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, believes women have been, more or less, brainwashed by "the patriarchy" and "sexism" to ignore the "liberatory, political, and social implications of fatness." Fahs, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies from the University of Michigan, came to this conclusion after she conducted an experiment in which all 20 of her subjects "expressed terror at the thought of suddenly gaining 100 pounds."

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2193787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Loebenberg</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her faculty profile says she “teaches a range of classes and seminars on urban spaces and landscape, architecture, cities, and…play and game studies.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was a protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone wp-image-2809 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3177657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Wheatley</a> teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise are “Cultural Anthropology” and “Transnational Migration.”

Wheatley is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2608679">Adam Rigoni</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. He teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “Special Topics.”

Rigoni is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3171591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Young</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include violence, “Colonial and Post-Colonial theory,” “American and Ethics Studies,” English, and “Critical Theory.”

Young is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Fong</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. <a href="https://sst.asu.edu/content/center-work-and-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Center</a> conducts research into election initiatives and organizes protests during times of political crisis.

Fong is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Honors Thesis," "Aesthetics and Society," and "Special Topics" with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”

Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3333726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dagmar Van Engen</a> is an Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Writing Center at Arizona State University. As a member of the LGBT community, Van Engen’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their. Van Engen’s areas of expertise include “Gender and Sexuality,” “Feminist and Queer Theory," and "Science Fiction."

Van Engen is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Agruss</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include “Victorian Literature and Culture,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Critical Theory,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Agruss is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/228488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Fette</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Fette teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “The Human Event.”

Fette is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2471599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Meloy</a> is an Associate Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics," "Individualized Instruction," and "Barrett Honors Internship."

Meloy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/675885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriella Soto</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “undocumented migration,” “migrant death and disappearance”, and “archaeology.” 

Soto is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3515243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgette Briggs</a> is a Senior Lecturer and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Honors Independent Study.”

Briggs is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3319768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irina Levin</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor, a Jewish Studies Faculty Affiliate, and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include the former Soviet Union, migration, nationalism, and gender and sexuality.

Levin is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/45849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacquie Scott-Lynch</a> is a Teaching Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fell at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics" and "Individualized Instruction." Her areas of expertise include Irish studies, world literature, and race and ethnicity.

Scott-Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/866912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Brian</a> is a Faculty Chair and a Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist and Queer Theory,” “Feminist Ethics,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Brian’s <a href="https://jennydyckbrian.com/">website</a> goes in further detail as to what she teaches. For instance, her “Queer Bioethics” seminar course covers the challenges “LGBTQIA” people supposedly face that stem from bioethics and health policy.

The course <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2187/92008/pdf;jsessionid=CF01C07A3B0D3B971CE00A931AEA8ACD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> — which  includes the “ethical issue” of “intersex children” gaining access to treatments — says:

“Some of the pressing ethical issues include access to health care and culturally competent mental health resources, treatments for intersex children, standards for blood donation from same-sex sexually active men, access to assisted reproductive technologies and adoption, health insurance coverage, violence (self and other-inflicted) toward gay and transgender youth, exclusion from clinical trials, and so-called ‘psychotherapies’ designed to change sexual orientation.”

The subjects of puberty blockers, gender diversity, transgenderism among adolescents, and gender dysphoria, are covered in the course. (See image of syllabus below):

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Brian is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/50294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Lynch</a> is a Principal Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Lynch teaches “Special Topics,” “Honors Directed Study,” and “Undergraduate Research.”  

Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/266886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Foy</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized Instruction.” 

Foy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph O’Neil</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University.  He teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “The Human Event.”

O’Neil is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/973834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Jakubczak</a> is an Affiliate Faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Jakubczak’s areas of expertise include Anthropology, Paleobotany, Climate Change, and Climate Science.

Jakubczak is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2457458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurie Stoff</a> is the Assistant Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Stoff’s areas of expertise include “Russian and East European Studies,” “War and Society,” and “Women and Gender Studies.”

Stoff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2012013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Barca</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Barca’s area of expertise includes "Animal Studies," "Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability," and "Feminism and Gender Studies."

Barca is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mathew Sandoval</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Sandoval’s areas of expertise include “Activism and Social Movements,” “Cultural Studies,” and “Race and Ethnicity.”

Sandoval is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2454381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Voorhees</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Voorhees teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Special Topics.”

Voorhees is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Ostling</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Ostling’s university biography says he’s a “religious studies scholar focusing on the history,  historiography, and representation of witches and witchcraft."

Ostling is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2009484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mina Suk</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Freshman Seminary,” “The Human Event,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Suk is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1992537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nilanjana Bhattacharjya</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Ethnomusicology,” “Film and Media Studies,” and “Popular Music.”

Bhattacharjya is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/85114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Schmidt</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “History of Ideas,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Schmidt is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4002947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Cortes</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized instruction.”

Cortes is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/247692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fedock</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist Ethics,” “Moral Psychology,” “Feminism and Gender Studies,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Fedock is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2450227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Soares</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “Spiritualism,” “Transatlantic Studies,” and “Print Culture.”

Soares is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/538564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Mack</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “The Human Event,” and “Special Topics.”

Mack is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1796349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Graff</a> is a Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Individualized Instruction,” “The Human Event, and “Special Topics.”

Graff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/786008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Hines</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include critical social theory and critical theory.

Hines is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 

“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”

In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols - a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers - Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”

In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”

He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2426729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stuart Rhoden</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University. He primarily teaches "Mindset Connections" and "Academic Success."

Rhoden is also a City of Scottsdale Human Relations Commission board member. According to the <a href="https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/human-relations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commission’s website</a>, the organization “will advocate and promote all dimensions of diversity.” Board members also commit to making “recommendations on ways to encourage mutual respect and understanding among people to discourage prejudice and discrimination, and to work towards cultural awareness and unity.”

In April 2022, <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2022/04/14/scottsdales-dei-gurus-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Daily Independent</a> featured Rhoden in an article titled, “Scottsdale’s DEI Gurus Accuse Black DJ of Wearing Blackface.” The Daily said, “[Rhoden]...attacked the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for hiring Koko Kim Hunter to host a charity auction.” Rhoden said he believed Hunter was wearing blackface during the event. After it was confirmed that Koko is in fact a black man, Rhoden clarified his position with the following social media post:

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1658062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce McCall</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. McCall’s biography says her research “centers on how race, class and culture impact educational equity in music learning and teaching.”

<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASU News</a> announced McCall’s position in 2021, stating that she was “one of the few scholars whose music education research focuses on race and racism through critical race theory [CRT] and double consciousness theory…”

The article goes on to say that McCall was the only African-American student to earn a doctorate in music education from ASU. McCall also reportedly said that she feels she can offer “an informed perspective based on experience and expertise” that can optimize K-12 learning experiences.

In July 2022, McCall was featured in a <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/critical-race-theory-music-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classic FM article</a> titled, “Music professor breaks down [CRT] and why it’s crucial for 21st-century music education.” McCall told the publication:

“‘[CRT] is a tool that was conceptualized and born out of critical legal studies as a means to analyze, critique and to help dismantle racism…Even though…we like to think of ourselves as being more progressive and more innovative…When you look at a university curriculum in America, it gives you a really nice snapshot of Western Europe.’”

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In a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Voices-Music-Education-Talbot/dp/0415788331/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZJC8AXCLXQL&amp;keywords=marginalized+voices+in+music+education&amp;qid=1687280532&amp;sprefix=marginalized+voice%2Caps%2C161&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marginalized Voices in Music Education</a>,” McCall authored an introduction with the title, “Speak No Evil: Talking Race as an African American in Music Education.” McCall told “her story” about growing up in a predominantly white school and participating in band class. 

She informs readers of her experiences as an “African American in music education…whose structures and social actors attempted to silence [her] voice.” Although McCall experienced notable success and received much encouragement throughout her pursuits, she wrote: 

“Despite my professors and peers at ASU ensuring me that I was in a safe place, I didn’t believe it because I knew that outside of ASU, society viewed my voice differently and that the profession did not want to hear what I had to say. These were my perceptions…” 
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3016173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Sampson</a> is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Sampson’s faculty profile, “Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy, and equity from three interrelated perspectives—democracy, community advocacy, and politics.” Sampson’s areas of expertise include “Critical Race Theory,” “Feminist Theory,” “Race and Racism in Education,” and “Social Justice in Education.”

Sampson has published several gender- and race-based articles. In 2016, Sampson <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842346?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored</a> “Engaging (or not) in coalition politics: a case study of Black and Latinx community advocacy toward educational equity.” In the abstract notes, Sampson et al. state: 
“We use ‘Latinx’ as a gender-neutral reference to the people of Latin-American heritage. To not negate gendered experiences, we use Latino/Latina, or Chicano/a when acknowledging individuals or past research identifying with these gendered identities … Although both ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ are politicized categories, we recognize the reality of the identities are diverse, intersecting, and fluid.”
In an article titled “Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire,” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-thousand-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20academics%20from%20universities,has%20killed%20more%20than%2011%2C000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout</a> gave a biased account of a statement signed by several university professors, including Sampson. The statement was crafted after the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel. 

Truthout said, “Hundreds of academics from universities and institutions of higher learning from … across North America have signed on to a joint letter, calling on their governments to demand Israeli ceasefire in Gaza … The signers, calling themselves ‘Educators for Palestine,’ are Palestinian academics and their allies who denounce Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BA7ddNwiUF9ns3zJK3t-nrTpn8R4s3ZB_wbZstAo2iY/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter Sampson signed</a> states, in part:
“We have paid careful attention to consistent invocations of children in public officials’ responses to and media portrayals of the attack in Israel on October 7, which took 1400 lives. We mourn this loss of life, and we are also struck by the ways that this concern for children does not extend to the unspeakable number of Palestinian children’s lives taken by Israeli state violence, harmed by apartheid rule, and traumatized by intergenerational experiences of settler colonial dispossession for over [75] years.”
Please send information on Carrie Sampson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Richard</a> is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Richard’s faculty profile — which contains the preferred pronouns of “they/them” — says his professional interests include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Trauma-informed psychotherapy”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender- and sexuality-affirmative interventions”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sex and kink positivity” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“LGBTQ+ workplace concerns”</li>
</ul>
Richard’s Instagram page, “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_punk_psychologist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Punk Psychologist</a>,” reveals an apparent obsession with anal sex, “transgenderism,” and multiple sexualities.

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The description for Richard’s 300+ level <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2241/28325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology of Human Sexuality</a> course states: “By the end of the semester you will be able to understand how the following behaviors[sic] in regards to their learning and motivation and the research involved in these discoveries. The list of behaviors includes, but is not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexuality Today”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Development and Education”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Adult Sexual Relationships”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“‘Alternative’ Sex and Polyamory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Power and Coercion”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexual Images and Selling Sex”</li>
</ul>
During ASU’s “<a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/cultural-connections/events/honor-heritage/trans-awareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Awareness Week</a>” celebration in November 2023, Richard offered a session called “<a href="https://asu.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9588130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lunch with a Queer Psychologist</a>.” The event registration included the following description of Richard:

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Despite <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539">holding</a> multiple psychology degrees and participating in numerous presentations, Richard has only published one article in the field back in 2020. 

Please send tips and information on Dylan Richard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 25, 2024
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<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20240221-law-journalism-and-politics-jemele-hill-deliver-lecture-race-relations-asu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemele Hill</a> was the featured speaker at the 2024 A. Wade Smith and Elsie Moore Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at Arizona State University (ASU). Hill is primarily known for her incendiary commentary as an American sports journalist on ESPN from 2006 to 2017.  Hill departed from ESPN after posting tweets calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaining</a> about “conservative culture” in the workplace.

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Hill also tweeted a statement accusing artist Kid Rock of being racist:

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In an August 2022 article, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today published</a> comments from Hill about her departure from ESPN:
 “‘I wasn’t a good fit for the ‘SportsCenter’ culture. Definitely not a good fit for the management that was overseeing the ‘SportsCenter’ at the time. And I got tired. I got really tired of fighting everyday to be myself … It’s the conservative culture at ESPN and so this idea that ESPN is being run by flower children is just a lie. That’s not how it is. It’s the opposite, if anything … 
‘Once critics started seeing my face … then suddenly ESPN is too liberal because what they’re really trying to say is ‘Oh, y’all must be liberal-leaning because you got all these women and all these [b]lack people who are suddenly on my TV everyday.’”
Hill further details the ESPN incident in her book “<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250624376/uphill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uphill</a>.”

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In January 2024, <a href="https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/jemele-hill-agency-wme-1235887820/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety announced</a>, “Hill has signed with WME for representation in all areas … She is also a co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media. At present, Hill is an executive producer on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/01/colin-kaepernick-kneeling-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick </a>documentary series … which is directed by Spike Lee and will air on ESPN.”

Around the same time, Hill <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jemele-hill-race-baiter-fans-slam-ex-espn-analyst-post-criticizing-lions-hc-dan-campbell-resurfaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went viral again</a> after past tweets resurfaced of her blaming Detroit Lions Coach Don Campbell for the lack of black head coaches in the NFL.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
This is who black coaches are losing opportunities to. <a href="https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q">https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q</a>
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1352377843758600197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

In turn, one commenter declared Hill a “race baiter.”

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Please send tips and information on Jemele Hill to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4399703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shannon Portillo</a> is a Professor and the Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. According to Portillo’s biography, “Her work helps scholars and practitioners understand how inequities are institutionalized in public organizations … [She also] served as co-chair of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.”

Portillo’s <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw7ABu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published works</a> include topics such as “Social Equity,” “Law &amp; Society,” and “Street-Level Bureaucracy.” She co-authored a paper entitled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition</a>,” which discussed the “goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs.” 

In her work, Portillo refers to a meeting called Minnowbrook I that took place following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook 50 Social Equity Manifesto</a>, “[A] group of public administration scholars met to reflect on the implications of the social and environmental circumstances for [their] discipline … [Their] call to action … focused on ways to intersect and integrate social equity in the research, teaching, and practice of public administration.”
In the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook paper,</a> Portillo et al. wrote:
“In 40 years since Minnowbrook I, the concern for social equity has grown to the point where it now occupies a firm place within the academy … However, despite its growth and general acceptance as a core area of research and concern, evidence of gross societal inequities in the United States and the global community abound.”
Portillo was featured in the <a href="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2022/02/17/public-administration-should-consider-effects-whiteness-masculinity-well-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KU News article</a> titled “Public administration should consider effects of whiteness, masculinity as well as presentation, researchers say,” where she offered her perspective on gender and racial discrimination in the industry.

Portillo states that during President Woodrow Wilson’s term, a push for segregation led to discrimination and the “normalization of white men in bureaucratic roles.” Any truth in this statement is neutralized by her contradictory claim that “[w]hite men have been in charge pretty much forever,” and, at the same time, “[w]e need more empirical evidence” to know whether white men in leadership have helped or harmed professional communities.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Shannon Portillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 24, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4219914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lydia HaRim Ahn</a> is an Assistant Professor in Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. According to her university profile, Ahn’s academic interests include the following:

“1) examining the detrimental effects of racism and oppression on marginalized communities with an emphasis on within group differences, 2) developmental protective and risk factors between racism and health outcomes with a focus on ethnic-racial socialization and parenting, and 3) enhancing positive psychological outcomes and change through psychotherapy, evidence-based videos, and prevention and intervention programming.” 
In February, Ahn and Thomas P. Le co-wrote an <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status.” In the abstract for the article, the authors state their purpose for writing it: 
“To further understand racialized desire among this underrepresented population, the present study examined the extent to which three sociocultural factors (i.e., internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status) were associated with two attraction outcome variables (i.e., dating preferences, physical attraction) across four racial categories of men: Asian men, Black men, Latino men, and White men.” 
They claim the factors of “internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status” have caused Asian American women to have a “stronger dating preference toward White men and weaker dating preference and physical attraction to Asian men.”  

In a section of the article titled “Internalized Racism,” the authors address their research on male dating preferences based on race. Focusing on Asian American women, the authors state that the demographic faces “gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism.” They then focus on the differences between Asian and white men with regard to Asian women and dating: 
“Asian American women have reported a desire to date White men for the sake of economic security, as well as to assimilate into White American society, even if their White male partners engaged in racial fetishization of Asian women (Nemoto, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2006</a>). This preference may promote stereotypes of Asian American men as undesirable and perpetually foreign (Wong &amp; McCullough, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>) and Black and Latino men as inferior to white men (Cascalheira &amp; Smith, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>). Furthermore, Asian American women face gendered racism (Gamst et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023</a>), or experiences of discrimination that are based upon the intersections of their race and gender, which contributes to their disempowerment and negative self-worth within the United States (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>).”
The authors conclude their study:
“Overall, our findings highlight how Asian American women’s romantic and intimate desires may be shaped by internalized racism, resistance and empowerment, and desire for social status. Asian American women face gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>; Juang et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018</a>; Wei et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2008</a>).”
Published - June 3, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/202508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University. Lober also serves as the director of ASU’s Academy of Lactation Programs and the clinical research director at Banner University Medical Center–Phoenix.

During an ASU presentation in March 2023, Lober pointed out that part of the Lactation Programs vision is to “normalize breastfeeding and human milk feeding as an act of social justice and health promotion.”

View the presentation below.

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On August 30, 2024, Lober was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” Lober partnered with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jennyirish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> who <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized an event</a> to discuss abortion.

According to The Fix, “Lober opened the one-hour moderated discussion by stating she ‘got into this space because the United States hates women and everything the female body does.’” 

The School Board Watchlist did not uncover the original audio from the event. However, <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/cannibalism-forced-breeding-professors-fearmonger-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Action </a>pointed out:
“Lober also argued that she is discouraging her children from having children, and said the decline in birth rates is a good thing—because the planet is overpopulated. Yet, ironically, the ASU <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events page</a> states that Lober’s ‘research is focused on establishing lactation and breastfeeding as a public health imperative’ and that she ‘is dedicated to working for a better world for families’...How, exactly does not create a better world for families or better health for children by encouraging abortion?”
Conservative lawyer and journalist, Jonathan Turley, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/01/the-united-states-hates-women-asu-event-offers-dystopian-anti-capitalist-vision-of-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> Lober in an article titled “‘The United States Hates Women’: ASU Event Offer Dystopian, Anti-Capitalist Vision of America.” Reflecting on Lober’s resolution for a future America without abortion, Turley said she called for the audience “to help ‘dismantle capitalism’ and ‘elect a female president.’”

Since the event, Lober has not commented publicly on her role in the conversation with Irish. Based on mainstream media reactions, both professors are committed to espousing anti-American and anti-family values. 
Please send tips and information on Professor Angela Lober to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1903524" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> is a Professor of English at Arizona State University.

In a 2023 <a href="https://www.kjzz.org/2024-04-30/content-1878588-stephen-king-seen-just-horror-author-asu-professor-argues-hes-much-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix, Irish discussed her thoughts on horror author Stephen King, whose books are currently being <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-king-florida-book-ban-viral-post-1947396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from school libraries</a> in Florida. The KJZZ host asked Irish to comment on her “associations” with the King novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Stephen-King/dp/1984898108/ref=asc_df_1984898108/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=692875362841&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=14364719003284224040&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435178818&amp;psc=1&amp;mcid=d9f4354e402c38979d3d64dbfc2a5893&amp;hvocijid=14364719003284224040-1984898108-&amp;hvexpln=73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie</a>”—the story of a high school outcast with telekinetic powers who eventually murders her bullying classmates by setting the town on fire. 

Irish responded to the interviewer stating:
“‘Carrie’ is amazing in the fact that [it] was written 50 years ago, but there’s so much about it that feels pretty tragically contemporary. If Carrie White had had access to a decent sex ed class, the town of Chamberlain, Maine, would still be standing…[I]t’s not hard to think about that in the midst I feel of our current kind of sociopolitical moment, where there’s such an assault on bodily autonomy and considerations of the rights of people to define their own identity and their own bodies and their relationships to them.”
On August 30, 2024, Irish was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” In <a href="https://lincolncenter.asu.edu/wb-workshop-HATCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnership</a> with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angelalober" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a>, Irish <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted an event</a> centered on releasing her new book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hatch/9sHtEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover">Hatch</a>,” a collection of prose poems exploring the future of the human race surviving through AI.

According to <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146969/hatch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern University Press</a>:
“The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species. This apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment: reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare technology…and the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence.”
In the following excerpt, Irish appears to describe an abortion from the artificial womb’s perspective.

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The Professor Watchlist did not recover any original video of the “Hatch” presentation. However, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote, “Irish also talked about transgenderism and said there is an ‘all-out assault on the trans community and people’s ability to self-identify.’ It is disgusting, immoral, and wrong,’ she said.”

Please send tips and information on Professor Jenny Irish to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

*RECOMMENDED PROFESSOR*
<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/843137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Owen Anderson</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Arizona State University. He teaches courses focused on philosophy, morality, and religion. As a Christian in a secular institution, Dr. Anderson has been subjected to discrimination and exclusion by the college. 

On September 20, 2024, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix featured</a> Anderson in an article titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” Quoting Dr. Anderson’s phone interview, the Fix wrote:
“If a class does not have a general education designation, most students won’t enroll and his college will be hesitant to offer it because it won’t attract many students.” 
Dr. Anderson’s Intro to Christianity class was canceled because he said ASU “[doesn’t] want it taught from a Christian perspective.” He provided The Fix with a member from ASU <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/juliasarreal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor Julia Sarreal</a> who said, “The syllabus reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kids of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit">here</a>. A screenshot of the learning objectives can be viewed below. A detailed view of course requirements can be read <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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After being canceled by ASU, Dr. Anderson posted a response on social media:
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Christian scholars and anyone who cares about academic freedom, I need your help. Please help me share widely to expose what is going on at ASU. <a href="https://twitter.com/HdxAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HdxAcademy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CollegeFix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CollegeFix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prageru</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megbasham</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConceptualJames</a> <a href="https://t.co/yDPIqyYl5i">pic.twitter.com/yDPIqyYl5i</a>
— Dr Owen Anderson (@dr_owenanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_owenanderson/status/1831925907613007950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom">interview with Turning Point USA</a>, Dr. Anderson stated that he, and his colleagues, were asked to “decolonize” their course syllabi. He described decolonization according to ASU’s definition:
“Decolonize means you become aware of any Western, and especially Christian, influences in your syllabus, and you replace those with what they would call ‘Indigenous people’s perspectives.’ Decolonizing comes out of a communist philosophy…It’s a political philosophy that’s being adopted by ASU to push on the students.”
During the interview, Dr. Anderson also said since he teaches world religions and philosophies, he believes his courses are culturally diverse, therefore, his lesson plans don’t need to be revised.

On March 19, 2024, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Complaint-Final-with-exhibits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint</a> with the Arizona Board of Regents after ASU mandated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for faculty and staff members. In <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/dismantling-asus-discriminatory-dei-regime/">partnership</a> with the Goldwater Institute, he brought the lawsuit to prohibit the college from using race, ethnicity, or sex—which goes against state and federal laws—to hire and retain employees.

In a June 18 <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/my-university-required-dei-training-im-suing/">opinion editorial</a> titled “My University Required DEI Training. I’m Suing,” Dr. Anderson wrote:
“I’m in favor of each of those terms: Diversity…equity…and inclusion…are undoubtedly good things. But when I began the mandatory training, I found something troubling: It engaged in race blaming, warning of the supposed ‘problem’ of whiteness and encouraged judgment of people based on their skin color. I could not, in good conscience, continue such racist training.”
Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> TPUSA that he believes these cultural shifts occurred as a result of ASU’s evolving definition of “multiculturalism,” which he also said, “caused respect for Christians to deteriorate on campus.” 

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Send feedback on this post to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Dr. Anderson presents a balanced perspective in the classroom and encourages students to think objectively. He upholds constitutional, conservative values despite pressure and ostracism from fellow ASU faculty and administrators. 
The Professor Watchlist considers Dr. Anderson a good professor. 
Published - September 23, 2024
On January 27, Professor Anderson <a href="https://crossexamined.org/a-guide-to-choosing-a-humanities-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> “A Guide To Choosing a Humanities Professor” for Cross Examined. 

In the guide, Anderson listed a series of qualities and defects found in humanities professors throughout the U.S. that should be sought after or avoided by students. Overall, he says students should pursue a degree that prepares them for life and teaches them to be wise.

Anderson wrote:
“Many professors in these classes don’t know how to teach what is good or what it means to be wise.”
He then explains the purpose of a humanities degree:
“But what about a degree in the humanities? How does it prepare you for life? To do so it would have to teach you what is good for a human life.”
According to Anderson, a humanities degree encourages students to learn and gain wisdom and reach the highest good in life:
“Wisdom is understanding the highest good and knowing how to live your life in a way that helps you reach the good. What is good for a person depends on human nature…The highest good is the ultimate goal we aim for in everything we do. We might have smaller goals along the way, but those are just steps toward something greater. ”
For Anderson, seeking the knowledge of God is an endeavor to reach the highest good that should be embedded into a humanities program:
“Most philosophers agree that the ultimate good for a human is to know God. Thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Locke all point to this idea in their work, even if they describe it in different ways. Even philosophers who don’t use the word “God” often still believe that knowing the highest reality—whatever they call it—is what makes life truly good for a person.”
Anderson cautions students to avoid skeptics and nihilists, ask professors what they believe is good, and find a professor who knows what is good. 

“These three steps will help you determine if a professor is wise and capable of teaching you wisdom,” Anderson wrote.

Even if professors who fit Anderson’s criteria cannot be found, the professor concluded with the following consolation:

“The good news is that you can still graduate without taking their classes.”
Updated - January 31, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1429800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Sarreal</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Sarreal’s research interests include Latin American Studies, Food, Drugs, and Capitalism. Her top area of expertise is “Consumerism.”

On September 20, 2024, Sarreal was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” The piece covers the cancelation of <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/drowenanderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Dr. Owen Anderson’s</a> religious studies course. 

After the college rejected his class, it was revealed that Sarreal objected to the premise of Christianity being taught on campus. The Fix recorded her comments:

“The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kinds of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need to have in order to study religious traditions.”

“Furthermore, the focus on ‘Western Civilization’ is problematic. It is true that Christianity has been ‘influential’ in European history, it has also been deeply influential elsewhere in ways that are completely ignored in the syllabus.” 

Based on the feedback Sarreal received from Dr. Anderson, it appears she either did not read the syllabus or chose to interpret the lesson plans through an objectionable lens. Sarreal specifically described one of the modules as being “focused on ‘the’ biblical worldview” and called this a “fraught oversimplification.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send tips, updates, and information on Julia Sarreal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - September 25, 2024

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3924315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Espinosa</a> is Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University (ASU). According to his faculty profile, Espinosa’s studies are chiefly focused on the work of William Shakespeare. 

On September 16, 2024, ASU’s <a href="https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Humanities Institute</a> hosted a panel with Espinosa and Professor Curtis Austin on cultural appropriation concerning the plays of Shakespeare. The <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> is described by the university as such: 
“What constitutes cultural appropriation, and when is it unethical? Should we adopt voices beyond our own, and if so then what factors must be weighed beforehand?”
“Pressing on hard research questions may lead to ethical dilemmas of how to speak in relation to another. This panel will discuss what it means to think, research, and write across cultures and ways of being.”  
In an audio recording of a l<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecture</a> obtained by the College Fix, Espinosa connected the alleged “white exceptionalism” of January 6 rioters U.S. Capitol protesters to Shakespeare. These two are both claimed to be symbols of “white exceptionalism” and “racial hierarchy.” The professor stated:

“It kind of has this origin in anti-immigrant sentiments, right, all the way to January 6th, when we think about that white exceptionalism, and this notion of a kind of white ownership of Shakespeare.”
Espinosa believes that “Shakespeare is the epitome or the marker of white exceptionalism” and sits at the top of the “racial hierarchy.” Thereby, he attached the poet to “whiteness” exclusively over humanity independent of race. 

In 2021, Espinosa published a book titled “<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-on-the-Shades-of-Racism/Espinosa/p/book/9780367183004">Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism</a>.” The publisher’s description states:
“Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.”
Please send information and tips on Ruben Espinosa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - September 30, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1256527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lela Rankin</a> is a professor in the Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson. According to her faculty profile, “Rankin’s scholarship focuses on preventive interventions for children and families, particularly in vulnerable populations.”

According to a January report from the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/maternal-instinct-is-socially-constructed-myth-arizona-state-u-professor-says/">College Fix</a>, in a lecture Rankin claimed that the maternal instinct is a fabricated myth with no biological reality. 

“[T]his idea of this maternal instinct, it struck me as potentially problematic because it really places the primacy on biological mothers, and then it relegates other people…to essentially secondary babysitters or assistants, right?”

The claims in this lecture are based on  research that can be found in a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953624006257#:~:text=We%20did%20not%20find%20empirical,knowledge%20strengthened%20attachment%20over%20time." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> Rankin co-authored with Haley G. Krouskop b, Maryanne L. Fisher.

In the study, titled “Mother-infant attachment from the perspective of young mothers: Does the data support a maternal instinct?,” the authors claim the following:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We did not find empirical evidence to support an innate maternal instinct.•</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Young mothers' qualitative experiences with attachment at birth were diverse.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Physical touch-based parenting and parental stress impacted the bonding experience.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Reciprocity and parenting confidence/knowledge strengthened attachment over time.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Mothers developed an “instinct” through repetitive interactions with their infant.”</li>
</ul>
Further addressing the above points, the authors find that no maternal instinct is inherent during the processes of pregnancy and childbirth; rather, a mother infant connection is developed after birth during childcare:

“Despite diverse experiences with felt attachment at birth, all mothers perceived that the mother-infant connection was influenced by contextual factors after birth and was strengthened over time with more care-taking experience. ​​This suggests that mothers likely developed a ‘maternal instinct’ through repetitive interaction with their infant as the primary caretaker rather than a genetic predisposition to be superior nurturing parents.”

In the article’s conclusion, the authors maintain that caregiving and nurturing behaviors are a necessity and should be present during pregnancy or right at childbirth. They cite British psychoanalyst John Bowlby’s concept of attachment theory, among other theorists, in an attempt to backup their claims:  

“If mothers possess an innate instinct for the purposes of bonding, breastfeeding, and other caregiving behaviors… then arguably this instinct should be felt during pregnancy or at childbirth.”
Published - February 12, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sally L. Kitch</a> is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. 

According to her faculty profile, Kitch “specializes in three major research and teaching areas: 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“[F]eminist theory, including the intellectual history of gender and racial ideology in the U.S. and other countries and the impact of gender representation in visual and narrative culture on the lived realities of diverse women's lives; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">feminist epistemology, the epistemology of the humanities, and theories of interdisciplinary knowledge production; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">environmental humanities, including the importance of the humanities to sustainability science and the relationship of sustainability to gender and racial ideologies.”  </li>
</ol>
In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade through the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs Decision</a>, Kitch wrote an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369989167_Reproductive_Rights_and_Ecofeminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism.” 

Ecofeminism is <a href="https://hcwc.college.harvard.edu/education/workshops/ecofeminism#:~:text=Ecofeminism%2C%20also%20called%20ecological%20feminism,merits%20of%20intuition%20and%20collaboration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as a practice using “the basic feminist tenets of gender equality, a revaluing of non-patriarchal or nonlinear structures, and a view of the world that respects organic processes, holistic connections, and the merits of intuition and collaboration.”

In the article, Kitch aligns herself with ecofeminism, and argues that the “Dobbs decision invites an ecofeminist interpretation of its relationship to the destruction of our planet and to the biopolitics of environmental sustainability.”

The professor claimed that there is a connection between the bodies of women, enslaved, disabled, and racialized people, along with animals and nature as “terrains” of conquest: 

“Ecofeminism in the 2020s links those forces by articulating ‘a clear connection between the treatment of the bodies of women, the enslaved, the disabled, and the racialized, and the treatment of lands, animals, and plants: they are all naturalized terrains of experimentation or conquest.”

The term “ecofascist” is used in the article a few times. Kitch’s cited <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-november-december/feature/eco-fascism-uncovered-el-paso-texas">source</a> defines the term as “violence in the name of environmental conservation.” Kitch further writes on “ecofascists”:

“Many ecofascists in the U.S. oppose action to reduce global warming by eliminating carbon emissions as an affront to white patriarchal/capitalist/colonial power, which allegedly emanates from industrial might and its key driver, fossil fuels (Hernandez-Simmons 2022; Westervelt 2022).”

Kitch is still listed on the ASU faculty site as an active professor, yet the <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last course</a> she taught was a practicum in 2022.
Published - March 6, 2025

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3723615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mellissa Linton</a> is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation. She specializes in women and gender studies, reproductive justice, comparative race and ethnic studies, and materialist feminism.

Dr. Linton reacted to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by <a href="https://malcs.org/blog/2022/07/14/malcs-roe-v-wade-letter-statements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling the decision</a> “a class and racially motivated tragedy.” She defends Roe v. Wade calling it “legal security for women.” However, she does criticize the language of Roe v. Wade for leaving out trans and disabled people and forcing them into a secondary role.

According to Linton, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is a class issue because it promotes traveling to other states as the exclusive means to access abortion. Further, she claims that it is also a racial issue that impacts family planning for what she calls “reproductive people.”

In another article, she states that “though the U.S. has not yet <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/06/14/el-salvador-abortion-ban-roe-v-wade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminalized abortion</a> nationally, there is legal precedent to do so.” She cites bills banning abortion between six and fifteen weeks in 13 states as a strategic move toward national abortion bans. Although, in the same article, she claims that “combatting abortion bans in the U.S. will be difficult because states exert their own jurisdiction over abortion laws.”

Included at the bottom of her article is a <a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/vHwGbWEOKEGn8oRohNE-EA2#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">link to a petition</a> titled “we have had abortions.” The stated goal of the petition is to show legislators that women who have had abortions or support abortions will not give up abortion rights. Tucked into the bottom of the petition is a small text box dedicated to abortion stories. Women or “reproductive people” can post their personal abortion stories to the publication.

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Published - October 17, 2022

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<a href="https://liberalarts.latech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/single-entry/name/andrew-mckevitt-1/">Andrew McKevitt</a> is an Associate Professor at Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech).
When then-President Donald Trump was <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/president-trump-first-lady-contract-152830533.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to the hospital after contracting COVID-19</a> in October 2020, McKevitt tweeted that he hoped Trump would instead die in prison.
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I thought we had all agreed we wanted to see him die in prison
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1311997888654970882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Following national coverage, LA Tech President Les Guice <a href="https://www.latech.edu/coronavirus/messages/campus-update-136/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">distanced himself from the tweet</a>, stating that McKevitt’s comment does not represent the University.
“&#8230;this faculty member does not speak for our University. There are responsibilities associated with the right to free speech, and threatening, harassing, and bullying speech is never appropriate. It is not representative of our values and culture at Tech.”
In a subsequent op-ed, McKevitt <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2020/10/19/wheres-louisiana-tech-loyalty-to-professors-whose-opinions-provoke-death-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted to justify himself</a>, writing that he wanted to see Donald Trump recover so he can be arrested for his “many documented crimes.” Then, he continued, Trump would “spend the remainder of his days—may they be healthy and long!—in prison.” He further condemned the media’s coverage, claiming it was part of an effort to fire him and “chill free speech on campus.”
In July 2021, McKevitt asked where he could donate to the hypothetical senate campaign of Rand Paul’s neighbor. The now-deleted tweet references Rene Boucher, who attacked the Senator while he was mowing his yard in November 2017. Paul <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-awarded-over-580g-after-he-was-attacked-by-neighbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding</a> from the incident and was awarded $580,000 in damages.
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McKevitt claims that he had no knowledge of the assault and was just siding with Paul’s neighbor in the “<a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1417925196862865413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1417925196862865413%7Ctwgr%5E50e3916d641bff401ad7239316e1f614129bb85a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Frebeccadowns%2F2021%2F07%2F21%2Fla-tech-professor-tweets-support-for-rand-pauls-neighbor-n2592919" target="_blank" rel="noopener">property dispute</a>.”
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Was there a &#8220;violent assault&#8221;? That&#8217;s unfortunate. I haven&#8217;t heard anything about it. I don&#8217;t support violence. I understand there was some kind of property dispute. I was merely voicing support for Rand Paul&#8217;s neighbor&#8217;s property claims
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1417925196862865413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In yet another tweet, McKevitt advocates for accosting “fascists” in public.
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For the record *every* public figure should be accosted when their &#8220;political persuasion&#8221; is fascism <a href="https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa</a>
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1419480804028203009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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His comment was in reference to Tucker Carlson, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-tucker-carlson-confronted-at-store-by-man-saying-you-are-the-worst-human-being/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who had just been followed and harassed</a> by a left-wing activist while on vacation.
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<a href="https://liberalarts.latech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/single-entry/name/andrew-mckevitt-1/">Andrew McKevitt</a> is an Associate Professor at Louisiana Tech University (LA Tech).

When then-President Donald Trump was <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/video/president-trump-first-lady-contract-152830533.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to the hospital after contracting COVID-19</a> in October 2020, McKevitt tweeted that he hoped Trump would instead die in prison.
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I thought we had all agreed we wanted to see him die in prison
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1311997888654970882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Following national coverage, LA Tech President Les Guice <a href="https://www.latech.edu/coronavirus/messages/campus-update-136/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">distanced himself from the tweet</a>, stating that McKevitt’s comment does not represent the University.

“...this faculty member does not speak for our University. There are responsibilities associated with the right to free speech, and threatening, harassing, and bullying speech is never appropriate. It is not representative of our values and culture at Tech.”

In a subsequent op-ed, McKevitt <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2020/10/19/wheres-louisiana-tech-loyalty-to-professors-whose-opinions-provoke-death-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted to justify himself</a>, writing that he wanted to see Donald Trump recover so he can be arrested for his “many documented crimes.” Then, he continued, Trump would “spend the remainder of his days—may they be healthy and long!—in prison.” He further condemned the media’s coverage, claiming it was part of an effort to fire him and “chill free speech on campus.”

In July 2021, McKevitt asked where he could donate to the hypothetical senate campaign of Rand Paul’s neighbor. The now-deleted tweet references Rene Boucher, who attacked the Senator while he was mowing his yard in November 2017. Paul <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-awarded-over-580g-after-he-was-attacked-by-neighbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered six broken ribs and internal bleeding</a> from the incident and was awarded $580,000 in damages.

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McKevitt claims that he had no knowledge of the assault and was just siding with Paul’s neighbor in the “<a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1417925196862865413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1417925196862865413%7Ctwgr%5E50e3916d641bff401ad7239316e1f614129bb85a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Frebeccadowns%2F2021%2F07%2F21%2Fla-tech-professor-tweets-support-for-rand-pauls-neighbor-n2592919" target="_blank" rel="noopener">property dispute</a>.”
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Was there a "violent assault"? That's unfortunate. I haven't heard anything about it. I don't support violence. I understand there was some kind of property dispute. I was merely voicing support for Rand Paul's neighbor's property claims
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1417925196862865413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In yet another tweet, McKevitt advocates for accosting “fascists” in public.
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For the record *every* public figure should be accosted when their "political persuasion" is fascism <a href="https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/yR58lZ8OJa</a>
— Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/drewmckevitt/status/1419480804028203009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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His comment was in reference to Tucker Carlson, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-tucker-carlson-confronted-at-store-by-man-saying-you-are-the-worst-human-being/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who had just been followed and harassed</a> by a left-wing activist while on vacation.

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<a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eric Ruiz Bybee</a> is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the <a href="https://education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah.
In a message to the conservative, student-run publication, <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Dr. Bybee threatened to report writers of the site and others for academic misconduct. The incident stemmed from a report by the paper in which a document from Dr. Jane Lopez’s course was published.
Her assignment—titled, “Revealing Whiteness Activity,”—asked students to identify and photograph three aspects of “whiteness” represented at BYU. The document further cited the author of “White Fragility”, Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color.”
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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/janelopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lopez, please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.
Several days after the story was posted, the site was inundated with comments accusing the author of posting private intellectual property.
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Shortly after, Dr. Eric Bybee privately messaged the Chronicle and demanded the post be taken down. He likewise accused the authors of stealing Dr. Lopez’s intellectual property and engaging in “targeted harassment” before assuring that he is committed to pursuing “appropriate consequences” against those responsible.
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He threatened to report several conservative students and activists on campus—including several who do not even write for the paper—to the university’s Honor Code office administration for disciplinary action (The names of the students have been blurred at their request).
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<a href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Honor Code Office</a> is tasked with enforcing the university’s code of conduct. Those found in violation may face academic discipline or—in extreme cases—expulsion from BYU.
Upon review of the Honor Code by the Professor Watchlist Team, t<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/policy/academic-honesty">here appears to be no rule against the posting of an assignment</a>.
While the office ultimately chose to not investigate, the author of the story eventually edited the sections of the report that included Dr. Lopez’s course due to the nature of the threat. The <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/news-and-opinion/f/opinion-byu-teaching-antiracism---racism-repackaged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated piece can still be found on the Chronicle’s website</a> and a corresponding post on the site’s Instagram page—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byuconservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BYU Conservatives</a>—may be viewed below.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bybee’s personal Twitter account</a> further showcases his antagonism towards conservatives and white men in addition to his far-left stances.
A series of tweets support critical race theory,
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A reminder:
Davis District *cancelled* an anti-bias training in response to Utah’s anti-CRT resolution.
This means that there is a *direct link* between cynical attempts to manufacture outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRT</a> and the racist abuse that Black students experience in schools. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZtzrqpQCr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AZtzrqpQCr</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1453066745502044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friends I am speaking on a CRT panel tomorrow sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_UofUtah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP_UofUtah</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterUtahInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetterUtahInst</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/acluutah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acluutah</a>.
Join us!<a href="https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m</a> <a href="https://t.co/sOIcpRo97J" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sOIcpRo97J</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1405270931187015681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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One tweet compares Joe Rogan to the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-convicted-murdering-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-life-prison-rcna10901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in a hate crime</a>,
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I am pretty tired of hearing about Joe Rogan at this point, but it feels worth pointing out that the federal hate crime case against Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers hinges in part on their use of the same slurs that Rogan used on his show.
Let that sink in for a moment. <a href="https://t.co/OweQXalcAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/OweQXalcAl</a> <a href="https://t.co/JyZVOIZwr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/JyZVOIZwr0</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1490938173677260800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a thread, Dr. Bybee accuses white men of representing “the face of modern domestic terrorism.”
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Say it with me again.
The face of modern domestic terrorism is not brown or black. It is white. /1<a href="https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZMM6XPADqp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ZMM6XPADqp</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1314654321611403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yet another tweet insinuates that Kyle Rittenhouse received preferable treatment from the justice system because he is white,
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I can’t think of two cases that better illustrates the white supremacy of our criminal justice system.
It’s a sickness and and rot at the heart of our society. <a href="https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1330672839175770113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bybee’s work has led him to <a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric">author papers</a> on Latinx Education, Racial Identity, Social Justice Education, and even one paper titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271217910_White_Supremacy_NeoColonial_Education_and_the_Struggle_for_Precious_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge.”</a>
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Bybee for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Update 
After publication, Dr. Bybee proceeded to publish 61-tweets defending teaching “whiteness” to his students and describing the Professor Watchlist as “something that sounds like it could have come out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” The full thread may be viewed below. 
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So, last Thursday a right-wing website published a story about me and another <a href="https://twitter.com/BYU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BYU</a> colleague.
Since then I have received many harassing emails/voicemails.
I have decided to make public those emails/voicemails in this thread. 🧵 /1
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1505954460400455682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/rebecca-deschweinitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> (BYU) in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, Dr. de Schweinitz teaches subjects such as American History, US Women’s History, and African American History.

Much of Dr. de Schweinitz’s work focuses on racism within the LDS Church and BYU. In one of her published papers—tilted <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/there-is-no-equality-william-e-berrett-byu-and-healing-the-wounds-of-racism-in-the-latter-day-saint-past-and-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“There is No Equity”</a>—Dr. de Schweinitz details the history of racism within the university.

Dr. de Schweinitz is frequently cited by BYU for her expertise on racism, or more specifically, “anti-racism.” In one discussion—hosted by the BYU Kennedy Center—she extolls anti-racist scholar, Ibram X Kendi’s Book, “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to be an Antiracist</a>.”

Dr. Kendi’s book became a bestseller in 2020 during the height of the BLM riots. The premise targets systemic racism and claims that not it is not enough or to be “non-racist,” an individual must be anti racist, or take proactive actions or support policies that alleviate racism.

Readers may learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kendi by visiting his profile in the Professor Watchlist.</a>

During her comments on the panel, Dr. de Schweinitz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RO0V1tQzMU&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vehemently endorses Dr. Kendi’s work</a>. She even goes as far as to compare herself to Dr. Kendi, lauding the historical credentials of the latter. Furthermore, she openly admits that Dr. Kendi’s conception is taught in her classroom and centers her scholarships.

At one point, she calls racism a “metastatic cancer” that affects every single aspect of life in the United States. She admits that Dr. Kendi is right, and that white people are “nurtured” to be racist.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. de Schweintz frequently references her LDS background as a pretext to cite the need to be “antiracist.” At one point, she compares God’s position on sin to her own—and by default, Dr. Keni’s as well—on racism; as one can either be for the world or for God, likewise you can either be racist or anti-racist.

This theme is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCoxKtNvsg&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued in part two of the lecture.</a> Dr. de Schweinitz wastes no time in not only praising critical race theory, but listing it as integral to fighting racism.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. de Schweinitz states that anyone opposed to CRT is just viewing American history narrow-mindedly. She further states that an anti-racist America is “beautiful.” She articulates that critical theory is “one of many tools” that can be used by the church to alleviate racism.

<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jane-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jane Lopez</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, her research focuses on immigration, citizenship, law, race, and ethnicity.

In addition to teaching a class on immigration, Dr. Lopez is a sought-after speaker on the topic by the university. She was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FNKG4m6FOg&amp;t=4041s&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured guest in a Kennedy Center</a> event that condemned current immigration laws as oppressive and racist.

During her remarks, Dr. Lopez echoed her co-panelists praise of illegal immigration and encouragement to violate existing immigration laws. She further referred to the expectation of immigrants to learn English as a “privilege” of native-born Americans who will never face immigration laws.

Toward the end of her speech, Dr. Lopez stated that our ancestors were illegal immigrants. Americans have no right to deny immigrants, as this country “isn’t ours to begin with” and our ancestors caused "much greater destruction" than immigrants do today.

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Dr. Lopez’s classes further focus on race and “white privilege.” In leaked documents from her course, SOC-112, Dr. Lopez tasked students to identify and expose “whiteness” at BYU.

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The assignment, titled “Revealing Whiteness Activity,” asks teams of 3-4 students to explore the different aspects of “whiteness” built into the “physical and social environment” of BYU,

“As a Predominantly White Institution (PWI), BYU not only has a disproportionate number of White students in its student body (compared to the US population as a whole), but it also has different aspects of “Whiteness” built into its physical and social environment.” 

The document cites University of Washington professor and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Fragility</a>,” Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as the “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate White people over people of color.” She includes three additional definitions to further define the term as:
- A location of structural advantage, or “race privilege.”
- A “standpoint,” or a place from which White people look at themselves, at others, and at society.
- A set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
To learn more about Robin DeAngelo,<a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Students are tasked with identifying and photographing three separate manifestations of alleged whiteness on BYU’s campus before uploading the assignment for a final grade.

The document was originally published by the student-led publication, “<a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle,</a>” and <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/at-byu-all-you-have-to-do-to-get-an-a-is-be-a-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted by TPUSA’s Morgan Zegers</a>,

Upon the initial publication, a professor now identified as Dr. Eric Bybee, threatened to report all students affiliated with the story to BYU’s Honor Code Office. Dr. Bybee further called for the administration to investigate the students for possible conduct violations. (The names of the students cited by Dr. Bybee have been redacted at their request.) The author eventually altered the article out of concern for his academic standing.

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Bybee, please visit his profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Lopez for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://sociology.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sociology Department</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3392 or at sociology@byu.edu 
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<a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eric Ruiz Bybee</a> is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the <a href="https://education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah.

In a message to the conservative, student-run publication, <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Dr. Bybee threatened to report writers of the site and others for academic misconduct. The incident stemmed from a report by the paper in which a document from Dr. Jane Lopez’s course was published.

Her assignment—titled, “Revealing Whiteness Activity,”—asked students to identify and photograph three aspects of “whiteness” represented at BYU. The document further cited the author of “White Fragility”, Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color.”

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/janelopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lopez, please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Several days after the story was posted, the site was inundated with comments accusing the author of posting private intellectual property.

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Shortly after, Dr. Eric Bybee privately messaged the Chronicle and demanded the post be taken down. He likewise accused the authors of stealing Dr. Lopez’s intellectual property and engaging in “targeted harassment” before assuring that he is committed to pursuing “appropriate consequences” against those responsible.

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He threatened to report several conservative students and activists on campus—including several who do not even write for the paper—to the university’s Honor Code office administration for disciplinary action (The names of the students have been blurred at their request).

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<a href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Honor Code Office</a> is tasked with enforcing the university’s code of conduct. Those found in violation may face academic discipline or—in extreme cases—expulsion from BYU.

Upon review of the Honor Code by the Professor Watchlist Team, t<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/policy/academic-honesty">here appears to be no rule against the posting of an assignment</a>.

While the office ultimately chose to not investigate, the author of the story eventually edited the sections of the report that included Dr. Lopez’s course due to the nature of the threat. The <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/news-and-opinion/f/opinion-byu-teaching-antiracism---racism-repackaged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated piece can still be found on the Chronicle’s website</a> and a corresponding post on the site’s Instagram page—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byuconservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BYU Conservatives</a>—may be viewed below.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bybee’s personal Twitter account</a> further showcases his antagonism towards conservatives and white men in addition to his far-left stances.

A series of tweets support critical race theory,
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A reminder:
Davis District *cancelled* an anti-bias training in response to Utah’s anti-CRT resolution.

This means that there is a *direct link* between cynical attempts to manufacture outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRT</a> and the racist abuse that Black students experience in schools. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZtzrqpQCr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AZtzrqpQCr</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1453066745502044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friends I am speaking on a CRT panel tomorrow sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_UofUtah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP_UofUtah</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterUtahInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetterUtahInst</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/acluutah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acluutah</a>.
Join us!<a href="https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m</a> <a href="https://t.co/sOIcpRo97J" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sOIcpRo97J</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1405270931187015681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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One tweet compares Joe Rogan to the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-convicted-murdering-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-life-prison-rcna10901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in a hate crime</a>,
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I am pretty tired of hearing about Joe Rogan at this point, but it feels worth pointing out that the federal hate crime case against Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers hinges in part on their use of the same slurs that Rogan used on his show.
Let that sink in for a moment. <a href="https://t.co/OweQXalcAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/OweQXalcAl</a> <a href="https://t.co/JyZVOIZwr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/JyZVOIZwr0</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1490938173677260800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a thread, Dr. Bybee accuses white men of representing “the face of modern domestic terrorism.”
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Say it with me again.
The face of modern domestic terrorism is not brown or black. It is white. /1<a href="https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZMM6XPADqp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ZMM6XPADqp</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1314654321611403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yet another tweet insinuates that Kyle Rittenhouse received preferable treatment from the justice system because he is white,
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I can’t think of two cases that better illustrates the white supremacy of our criminal justice system.
It’s a sickness and and rot at the heart of our society. <a href="https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1330672839175770113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bybee’s work has led him to <a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric">author papers</a> on Latinx Education, Racial Identity, Social Justice Education, and even one paper titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271217910_White_Supremacy_NeoColonial_Education_and_the_Struggle_for_Precious_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge.”</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Bybee for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Update 
After publication, Dr. Bybee proceeded to publish 61-tweets defending teaching “whiteness” to his students and describing the Professor Watchlist as “something that sounds like it could have come out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” The full thread may be viewed below. 
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So, last Thursday a right-wing website published a story about me and another <a href="https://twitter.com/BYU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BYU</a> colleague.
Since then I have received many harassing emails/voicemails.

I have decided to make public those emails/voicemails in this thread. 🧵 /1

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1505954460400455682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3426 or at eac.frontdesk@byu.edu
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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jacob-rugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacob S. Rugh</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Family, Home, &amp; Social Sciences department at Brigham Young University (BYU).

In August of 2020, Rugh <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/09/jacob-s-rugh-an-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to BYU’s Committee on Race, Equity, and Belonging. One of his aims for writing the letter was “to amplify the voices of Black BYU students, specifically <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/07/18/byus-black-student-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their recent declaration</a> of grievances and letter on remembering and monuments to church, university and NAACP leaders.” 

Rugh said he has focused his BYU “citizenship efforts” to “the ongoing redesign of general education at BYU to include a new, focused diversity and inclusion requirement.” He also aims to establish “a new campus center for racial equality that would (among other tasks) spur the diversification of faculty now and enrich the pipeline of future faculty.” 

According to the letter, another priority of Rugh’s is for BYU to establish “a long-term process of institutional repentance,” on campus. 

In October of 2022, Rugh “quoted an anti-white article favorably in a tweet,” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Campus Reform</a>. The article, written by Perry Bacon Jr. for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/13/america-has-white-voter-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, was titled “America’s problem is White people keep backing the Republican Party.” Bacon Jr. claims that there is an alliance between white Americans and the Republican party, which he considers to be the “most important and problematic dynamic in American politics today.” (see tweet below). 
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"It’s no accident that Republicans are winning the majority of White voters...result of a successful strategy. It’s not that Trumpism brought White voters as a bloc to the Republican Party—but rather that it hasn’t scared many of them off." <a href="https://twitter.com/perrybaconjr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@perrybaconjr</a>🎯 <a href="https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp</a>
— Jacob S. Rugh (@JakeRugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeRugh/status/1581821693437235200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published -- November 9, 2022

<a href="https://ph.byu.edu/directory/stephanie-lutz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie Lutz</a> is an Internship Coordinator and Professor in the Department of Public Health at Brigham Young University (BYU). 

According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, in a “<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/life-sciences/public-health/womens-health-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HLTH 450: Women’s Health</a> course,” course, Lutz promoted “the concept of ‘interspace’ in pregnancy, the idea that perhaps someone isn't truly pregnant if they don't ‘know’ whether they're pregnant yet.”

Lutz also went further with her claim that pregancy is ambiguous, and suggested use of a pill taken by a woman who is unsure if she is pregnant or not:
“If she had unprotected intercourse before she takes a positive pregnancy test. There's a pill she can take to just ensure. Like in this interspace, like I don’t want to take a pregnancy test and I kind of don't want to know if I actually conceived. This pill will just take care of it if I did, and if I didn't.”
Campus Reform spoke with Ashleigh Watts, a former student of Lutz, who shared her experiences in the professor’s class:

“I just found it ironic that she pretty much worshipped Margaret Sanger who founded planned parenthood and essentially led the mass genocide of black children by means of abortion…while also teaching us CRT, about microaggressions, white guilt, and how to be an ‘anti-racist,’” Watts said. 

In October of 2022, Lutz told <a href="https://universe.byu.edu/2022/10/11/female-empowerment-how-byu-is-uplifting-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Universe</a> (a BYU publication) her approach to covering the subject of woman in her class:
 “In my class, while we cover the lifespan of the woman, we also discuss body image, self-esteem, nutrition, social media’s portrayal of women, women being marketed to sell products, eating disorders and more.” 
In her course, Lutz also tries “to infuse more of the social context of what’s going on in that, looking at marginalized groups such as LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled women, etc.”
Published - January 11, 2023

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John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster <a href="https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-comaroff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology</a> at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include crime, policing, and democracy in postcolonial politics. 
In June 2022, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/29/comaroff-amended-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Harvard Crimson</a> as an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault crimes on campus. The Crimson said, “Comaroff is facing new allegations of sexual harassment in an <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.242149/gov.uscourts.mad.242149.35.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended lawsuit</a> that includes accounts of unwanted touching, kissing, and sexual remarks during his three decades as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he allegedly engaged in multiple sexual relationships with students.”
When accusations resulted in a lawsuit against the college, Comaroff was placed on unpaid administrative leave in January. Comaroff’s colleagues immediately rallied in support with nearly 40 faculty and staff adding signatures to <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2022/02/04/1353924.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open letter</a>. The letter states:
“Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) found that Comaroff had ‘engaged in verbal conduct that violated the FAS Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy and the FAS Profesional Conduct Policy. Although Comaroff had been accused by three students, only one allegation was found by Harvard&#8217;s ODR to have any merit.”
“We the undersigned know John Comaroff to be an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen who has for five decades trained and advised hundreds of Ph.D. students of diverse backgrounds…We are dismayed by Harvard’s sanctions against him and concerned about its effects on our ability to advise our own students.”
By February 10 — when details of the lawsuit became public — the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/10/comaroff-faculty-letter-retraction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crimson reported</a>, “Almost all of the Harvard professors who signed an open letter that questioned the results of misconduct investigations into professor Comaroff have retracted their support.” In turn, “some of Harvard’s most prominent scholars signed a letter of retraction” and one sent an email to recant their support.
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/10/harvard-sexual-misconduct-comaroff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washinton Post</a>, “The reversal came after three Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit accusing the university of ignoring sexual harassment allegations against Comaroff…Attorneys for Comaroff said he categorically denies ever harassing or retaliating against any student…The lawsuit characterized Harvard’s response to complaints as ‘deliberate indifference…’”
As of September, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/09/accused-harasser-john-comaroff-returns-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from administrative leave</a> and allowed back in the classroom. The lawsuit against Harvard and Comaroff is ongoing.
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<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”
After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza &#8211; using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”
Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”
Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“&#8230;Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education &#8211; particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”
He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”
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Published &#8211; October 31, 2023

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<a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/joshua-dressler/">Joshua Dressler</a> is a Distinguished University Professor and the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University.  Dressler told his students that Ted Cruz’s comments to Donald Trump were anti-Semitic. Dressler claimed that Cruz’s infamous “New York values” statement was directed toward Jewish people in a negative way.

<a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/jeffries.57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries</a> is an associate professor of history at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University</a>. According to his university profile, his areas of expertise include the following:

- African-American History

- US History since 1877

- Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy,

- Power, Culture, and the State,

- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Dr. Hasan Kwame is an adherent to critical race theory and frequently defends the field in his lectures and speeches. In addition, he advises local high schools and school districts on how to teach critical theory to students.

On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently characterizes conservatives as white nationalists, supremacists and other epithets</a>. In one tweet, he lashes out at South Carolina Senator Tim Scott—currently the sole black Republican in the United States Senate—as the “blackface” of white supremacy.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GOP</a> is the party of white supremacy and Sen. Tim Scott is its Blackface. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndofDiscussion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#EndofDiscussion</a>
“Fact-checking GOP response to Biden's joint address”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimScott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TimScott</a><a href="https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2</a>

— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1387776742245421057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In other lectures, Dr. Jeffries portrays America as a systemically racist nation. He thus defends critical race theory as necessary to understand oppression and the history of racism in the United States.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes</a> for Breitbart News, critical race theory—also referred to as “critical theory”—is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

In a speech for <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The City Club of Cleveland</a>, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2021/08/20/misunderstanding-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds critical race theory as necessary to understand that racism is “systemic, deeply embedded, and produces racial inequality in our society</a>.” At one point while addressing the accusation that critical race theory brands all white people as racist, Dr. Jeffries retorts that while all white people are not born racist, all white people born in America are, in fact, racist.

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He further characterizes any opposition to critical race theory as a “racial reckoning” used to whip up conservative voters as “racism is the greatest organizing force” in American history. While denying that critical race theory is taught in American schools, he nonetheless advocates for students to learn it.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Jeffries conducts training for local school districts in Ohio. In one lesson plan for <a href="https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olentangy Local School District </a>obtained by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Jeffries advises teachers on how to teach critical theory and social justice movements to their students.

In Section One—titled, “Confronting Hard History: Teaching and Talking About Race and Racism in K-12 Classrooms,”—Dr. Jeffries addresses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and instructs teachers to incorporate the movement’s tenets into their lesson plans.

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Despite the destruction, Dr. Jeffries lauds the protests for seeking justice for systemic racism. He urges educators to incorporate this into their lesson plans when teaching about BLM. He further endorses explicitly discussing race and racial issues in the classroom as not doing so— or what Dr. Jeffries defines it as the “color-blind trap”— seeks to “erase” the experiences of people of color.

In part two of the training, Dr. Jeffries instructs teachers that America was founded in the year 1619 rather than 1776. He states that it is vital to understand the nation was founded on the double-helix of racism and capitalism.

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Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones likewise <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England. <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

To read more on Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones, users can <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">view her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Jones further states that it is vital to teach children how racism is encoded into the Constitution and our founding documents, as well as to regard founding fathers like James Madison as virulent racists.

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Throughout each lecture, Dr. Jeffries stresses the importance of teaching about the lingering effects of racism to students today.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jeffries for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667.
 
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<a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/people/lindsey.268" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Treva Lindsey</a> is an Associate Professor in the <a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ohio State University.</a> According to her university bio, Dr. Lindsay specializes in areas such as African American Women’s History, black feminism, critical race, and gender theory, among other sexual politics.

Dr. Lindsay frequently writes and is invited to lecture about sexual assault prevention on college campuses. In a video of a lecture at Portland State University, Dr. Lindsay can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZugy4C-Udg&amp;ab_channel=PortlandStateUniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting rehabilitating those who’ve committed sexual assault by teaching them to unlearn their “toxic masculinity” and innate homophobia</a>.

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Dr. Treva Lindsay frequently writes for a number of prominent publications—such as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/5/race-in-the-us-herstory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a>, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/14721/treva-lindsey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cosmopolitan</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/opinions/r-kelly-conviction-black-women-and-girls-lindsey/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>— accusing the United States of being systematically racist and calling for the abolishment of policing. She additionally praises the BLM movement for its alleged efforts to combat systemic racism.

Black Lives Matter (BLM,) as an organization, was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman in 2013, <a href="https://patrissecullors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrice Cullors</a> joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Opal Tometi</a> to found the organization. BLM’s mission is to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

In an article for Complex, Dr. Lindsay praises BLM and its umbrella organization, the Movement for Black Lives, for their <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2017/02/black-history-month-five-years-after-trayvon-martin-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role in awakening Americans to the reality of “anti-black racism</a>.” In the same article, she alleges that “millions” of black Americans have been victims of systemic racism for hundreds of years, and still are today.

In a separate article for NBC News, Dr. Lindsay decries the  passage of Juneteenth, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/juneteenth-honors-black-emancipation-hope-equality-federal-holiday-doesn-t-ncna1271356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing it as trivial and merely a “symbolic gesture.</a>” A bill to make Juneteenth—a holiday <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-slavery-announced-in-texas-juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrating the announcement that slavery had ended in Texas</a>— a national holiday was passed with the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-signs-bill-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday/ar-AAL92UE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan support of both houses</a> before it was signed into law in June of 2020.

Nonetheless, Dr. Lindsay writes that she can’t help but feel “contempt” towards white people for their support, critiquing the holiday as inadequate to combat “sanctioned white supremacy.”

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She mirrors her characterization in an article for Bustle, describing the history of the United States as <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lack-of-mobilized-outrage-for-police-killing-black-women-is-injurious-erasure-22953764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encompassing the murder of black people from slavery to the present day</a>.

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Dr. Lindsay builds on her allegation in another article for Complex, <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2016/09/blue-lives-matter-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">specifically citing “racist policing” and “police brutality'' as the 2 “most visible” forms of state violence</a> against black people. As such, Dr. Lindsay has openly called for the defunding of police on her <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>.
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Since Chauvin’s guilty verdict, there have been at least SIX more people killed by police.
A guilty verdict from a criminal punishment system hellbent on preserving itself- it will continue striking back and out until we dismantle. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/a2noWozUCz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/a2noWozUCz</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1386004406500569090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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We out here just trying to survive policing and calling for defunding and abolishing the police.
Just erasing the history of Pride as originating in rebelling against policing. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/m8v371ftrm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/m8v371ftrm</a> <a href="https://t.co/zYHmwhGH1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zYHmwhGH1I</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1395174584639438855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In one tweet, she calls for the abolishment of police officers following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant.
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It’s not a police-involved shooting. GTFOH with that passive, non-specific description.
Columbus police KILLED a 15 y/o Black girl named Ma’Khia. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MakhiaBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MakhiaBryant</a> should be here and these cruel and violent systems should not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHerName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/52PraZ2WaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/52PraZ2WaL</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1384686732193509388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Referencing an August 2020 incident, a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/04/20/graphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus, Ohio police officer was called over a domestic dispute involving Bryant</a>. When the officer arrived, Bryant was at the center of a fight with several other girls. Bryant then drew a knife and the responding officer ordered her to drop the weapon. Bryant then lunged at another girl with the knife, causing the officer to shoot and fatally wound her.

Despite <a href="https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1384703749046915074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384703749046915074%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flaw-and-order%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fgraphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence from the body-cam exonerating his actions</a>, Dr. Lindsay still alleges the incident is further proof of systemic racism and brutality directed specifically at black Americans. In an article for the site Truthout, she describes the officer’s actions—along with anyone who would defend them—<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-fighting-for-a-world-where-makhia-bryant-would-have-lived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the normalization of police violence and “erasing the long and inglorious history” of police violence against black people</a>. Dr. Lindsay further states that Bryant should still be alive while calling for the defunding and eventual abolishment of police.

“Police do not make us safer. Police do not make Black children safer. Not at school. Not on university campuses. Not at home. As the body camera footage shows, police escalate. The killing of Ma’Khia is yet another painful reminder of why a growing number of people are focusing their energies on building alternatives to policing and demanding that we defund the police. It’s a reminder why so many people are agitating to remove the police from our homes, communities, and schools — and eventually abolish policing altogether.”

Despite her defense of Byrant, Dr. Lindsay holds a paradoxical stance on the police shooting of Ashli Babbitt. In a separate article for Bitch Media, Dr. Lindsay <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/not-applying-say-her-name-to-white-supremacists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends the actions of the Capitol Officer who shot Babbitt</a>. Describing her as a white supremacist—and providing no evidence—who took part in an insurrection alongside a “lynch mob.”

Dr. Lindsay is referring to the January 6th Capitol Hill Riots, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election</a>. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.</a>” Ashli Babbitt was shot by Officer Michael Byrd as she attempted to climb through the broken window of a closed door. A review by the DC Metropolitan Police<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/documents-ashli-babbitt-death-foia-capitol-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> confirmed that Babbitt was unarmed when shot</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> of The Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667. 
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<a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/scott-f-leibowitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Scott Leibowitz</a> is an <a href="https://medicine.osu.edu/departments/psychiatry-and-behavioral-health/our-people/our-faculty-h-n" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor</a> in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is also the Medical Director for Behavioral Health at the THRIVE Gender and Sex Development Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

According to the THRIVE <a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/thrive-program/gender-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, “Our behavioral health providers serve patients and families who are seeking gender affirming medical treatment or when gender identity development plays a significant role in their emotional and social wellbeing.”

In June 2021, Dr. Leibowitz and Co-Medical Director of the THRIVE Gender Development Program Dr. Gayathri Chelvakumar, wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/06/23/gayathri-chelvakumar-and-scott-leibowitz-bills-increase-stigma-isolation-many-transgender-youth-fee/5297432001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a> in response to the “national wave of anti-transgender legislation.”

They write, “As healers, we follow ethical guidelines to deliver evidence-informed treatment options that are acknowledged and well-recognized by the academic and professional societies we belong to.” They argue “the last thing that transgender youth need are lawmakers restricting their athletic participation or eliminating important beneficial medical options for them.”

Dr. Leibowitz and Dr. Chelvakumar conclude the article by saying, “We urge our lawmakers to listen to the voices of the transgender youth and families, and those who provide care to them every day and abandon this harmful attempt to further alienate LGBTQ youth.”

Dr. Leibowitz also shared his thoughts about the legislation on Twitter:
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Even the mere introduction of these discriminatory legislative efforts- regardless of their ultimate success- sends a message to trans and gender diverse young people that they are “other”- and that is unacceptable. Support <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityOhio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EqualityOhio</a> and protect trans youth. <a href="https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R</a>
— Scott Leibowitz, MD (@ScottLeibowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLeibowitz/status/1410047097420779522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In March 2023, Dr. Leibowitz—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Leibowitz is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.”
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Published - July 26, 2023

<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza - using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”

Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”

Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“...Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education - particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”

He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

Protests

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

Pranav Jani

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According to <a href="https://www.easternecho.com/article/2024/10/emu-suspends-professor-amid-publicity-over-criminal-sexual-conduct-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Eastern Echo</a>, Coatings Research Institute Director Vijay Mannari was suspended from teaching due to his appearance on a catch a predator show where he was caught and arrested for attempting to have sex with a minor. 
In an <a href="https://www.watchtrublu.com/takedown-with-chris-hansen/season:10/videos/td-huron-township-vijay-fc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of “Takedown with Chris Hansen,” a law enforcement agent acted as a 15-year-old girl in a series of messages with Mannari. The professor sent sexually explicit texts to the agent before he arrived at the set-up house. He was arrested after talking with Chris Hansen about his actions.  
Eastern Michigan University issued the following <a href="https://today.emich.edu/story/statement/12839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> in light of Mannari’s suspension:
“The actions the individual is accused of are detestable and abhorrent, and stand against everything the University stands for. 
Upon learning about this matter, the individual was immediately suspended, barred from campus, denied access to University email, and prohibited from any further contact with the University or our students. 
Although the investigation remains ongoing, the University is not aware of any allegations against the individual that involve University employees or students.
The University is cooperating fully with law enforcement and will continue to monitor the situation closely. We take these matters very seriously, as the safety and well-being of our campus community is our top priority.”
Mannari’s profile on <a href="https://fozdardynamics.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fozdar Dynamic</a>—a chemical solutions research group–states that he “has a very strong professional network across the globe, is very active in serving many professional organizations, universities, and companies as a member of technical advisory boards.”
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Published &#8211; October 25, 2024

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<a href="https://www.emich.edu/sac/faculty/k-karpiak.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Karpiak</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). He is also Director of the <a href="https://www.emich.edu/smart-research-project/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Southeastern Michigan Criminal Justice Policy Research Project (SMART)</a>.

In an article for <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2021/11/eastern-michigan-university-project-to-address-racial-inequities-in-policing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MLive</a>, Karpiak described SMART as a “multidisciplinary team consisting of EMU faculty in sociology, anthropology, criminology, political science and public administration programs to address the deep-rooted issues of our current system.” SMART “seeks to train local agencies to ‘promote transformation in public safety.’”

SMART is currently <a href="https://www.emich.edu/smart-research-project/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working on three projects</a>, one of which is titled “Understanding the Black Experience of Policing in East Dearborn.” This project is collecting oral history narratives of the experiences of black residents with the Dearborn Police Department. These will be used as part of a “broader truth and reconciliation project geared towards opening up a community-led conversation that will explore alternative visions for public safety in East Dearborn.”

Karpiak is also a member of the <a href="https://www.reenvisionoursafety.org/about.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coalition to Re-Envision Our Safety (CROS)</a>, a “multiracial group” that “care[s] deeply about transformative justice and building care-based safety in our community.” The group says they “fully support a non-police/unarmed response” and claim they have written an “effective proposal” to accomplish this goal.

The <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/police-can-make-a-crisis-worse-the-public-needs-alternatives-in-an-emergency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main aspects of the CROS plan</a> include that the:
-”Unarmed response plan program be supported politically and funded by city government”
-”Be separate from law enforcement and the criminal legal system” 
-”Include a public phone number separate from 911”
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Published - December 29, 2022

According to <a href="https://www.easternecho.com/article/2024/10/emu-suspends-professor-amid-publicity-over-criminal-sexual-conduct-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Eastern Echo</a>, Coatings Research Institute Director Vijay Mannari was suspended from teaching due to his appearance on a catch a predator show where he was caught and arrested for attempting to have sex with a minor. 

In an <a href="https://www.watchtrublu.com/takedown-with-chris-hansen/season:10/videos/td-huron-township-vijay-fc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of “Takedown with Chris Hansen,” a law enforcement agent acted as a 15-year-old girl in a series of messages with Mannari. The professor sent sexually explicit texts to the agent before he arrived at the set-up house. He was arrested after talking with Chris Hansen about his actions.  

Eastern Michigan University issued the following <a href="https://today.emich.edu/story/statement/12839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> in light of Mannari’s suspension:
“The actions the individual is accused of are detestable and abhorrent, and stand against everything the University stands for. 
Upon learning about this matter, the individual was immediately suspended, barred from campus, denied access to University email, and prohibited from any further contact with the University or our students. 
Although the investigation remains ongoing, the University is not aware of any allegations against the individual that involve University employees or students.
The University is cooperating fully with law enforcement and will continue to monitor the situation closely. We take these matters very seriously, as the safety and well-being of our campus community is our top priority.”
Mannari’s profile on <a href="https://fozdardynamics.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fozdar Dynamic</a>—a chemical solutions research group–states that he “has a very strong professional network across the globe, is very active in serving many professional organizations, universities, and companies as a member of technical advisory boards.”

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Published - October 25, 2024

Vijay Mannari

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<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/julie-shayne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julie Shayne</a> is an Adjunct Teaching Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.
Shayne authored a 2020 article for Ms. Magazine titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/16/79-million-nos-mean-no-trump-rape-sexual-assault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80 Million No’s Mean No</a>.” In this piece, she states, “Trump’s fabricated narrative that this election was stolen from him is strikingly similar to a rapist’s upside down view that no means yes.”
She adds, “For me, the anxiety the prospect of his re-election caused took many physical forms, including nausea that felt like a razor in my stomach which made it impossible to eat.” According to Shayne, “my fourteen-year old son observed before the election was over, Trump needed to lose so I could purge him from my body: He was clearly a bacteria preventing me from eating.”
She also claims that Trump&#8217;s election to president in the first place is a “massive global metaphor for rape culture.” According to the professor, “I cried myself to sleep the Saturday before the election. I could not stop thinking about the prospect of having a man with a decades-long record of women and girls accusing him of sexual assault—including rape—re-elected president.” She believes that Trump will not be able to dodge accountability once he is out of office and hints at damning evidence of Trump&#8217;s record of sexual violence.
Shayne discusses the field of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) in an article titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/02/24/i-cant-believe-im-still-making-the-case-for-gender-women-sexuality-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters</a>.” She writes, “GWSS scholars, faculty, students, librarians and staff are running full speed—creating a living archive which responds to the violent, Trump-fueled misogynist, white supremacist, xenophobic era in which we are now submerged.”
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Published &#8211; December 28, 2022

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<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education/faculty-staff/wayneau" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Wayne Au</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Washington-Bothell</a>. His role exerts direct influence over future teachers and educators that graduate from the program. According to his University bio, Dr. Au’s courses and scholarship is centered around, “educational policy studies, critical education theory, and teaching for social justice.” His professional duties further showcase his commitment to insert social justice and left-wing topics into curriculums that are used in classrooms across the country.

Dr. Au is currently listed as an educator and board member for Rethinking Schools. The organization is dedicated to <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/about-rethinking-schools/our-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoting “equity and racial justice” in classrooms and strengthening education through “social justice activism.”</a> It was founded in 1986 after a group of activists deemed educational curriculums “too conservative” and racially biased. The organization is a staunch opponent of school choice, and they openly boast of, “sounding the alarm on private/charter school vouchers.”

Rethinking Schools’ <a href="https://rethinkingschools.org/books/a-peoples-history-for-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most well-known initiative is “The Zinn Education Project.</a>” Through free History lessons, classroom exercises, and publicly available teaching manuals, the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks to provide an alternative, left-leaning approach to education for teachers to provide to students</a>.

Howard Zinn was a left-leaning historian and author who was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/fbi-history-howard-zinn-10752.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected of belonging to a number of Communist and Soviet-front groups during the 1950s</a>. His most recognized work, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-the-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A People’s History of the United States</a>,” has sold millions of copies and is a frequently assigned reading in college classrooms. The book—which depicts America as a society founded on slavery and genocide and the aftermath of both reverberating to the present day—<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/08/debunking-left-wing-historian-howard-zinn-is-like-shooting-fish-in-a-barrel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been lambasted for its slanted and inaccurate portrayal of American society</a>.

The Howard Zinn Project grounds its activist approach to history and teaching on Howard Zinn’s work, specifically “A People’s History of the United States.” The website for the project <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts a network of 130,000 teachers and a growth of 10,000 new teachers</a> per year.

Dr. Au creates, writes, and helps distribute materials and lesson plans to teachers on behalf of the Zinn Education Project. Many of these resources direct teachers to introduce far-left topics and racially-laden curriculum into the classroom. Several documents produced by Dr. Au include lesson plans that <a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-panthers-ten-point-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extol the Marxist Black Panther Party</a>, manuals on educating students about “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teachers-vs-climate-change-teachers-work-for-climate-justice-portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate justice,”</a> and teaching “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/rethinking-multicultural-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial and cultural justice</a>.”

A paper co-edited by Dr. Au is titled, “<a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/teaching-black-lives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching for Black Lives</a>.” The document is over 300 pages long and consists of lesson plans on the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Liberation, and “teaching blackness.” According to a summary listed on the official site, the guide is to be used for educators to make their classrooms sites of “resistance” to “white supremacy and anti-blackness.”

According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Dr. Au is the author of a separate book titled, “<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Marxist Education.</a>” In it, he states his intention to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=10969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assist teachers in resisting “capitalism” and the “patriarchy” in their respective classrooms</a>.

In an interview for The Progressive about the book, Dr. Au <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/deeper-critical-consciousness-in-education-Wayne-Au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges teachers to be “anti-racist” and urges them to use their positions to fight “settler colonialism.</a>”

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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Au for comment but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.uwb.edu/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Educational Studies</a> at the University of Wisconsin-Bothell at (425) 352-5411 at uwbses@uw.edu
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Updated - November 18, 2021

<a href="https://www.uwb.edu/ias/faculty-and-staff/julie-shayne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julie Shayne</a> is an Adjunct Teaching Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

Shayne authored a 2020 article for Ms. Magazine titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/16/79-million-nos-mean-no-trump-rape-sexual-assault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">80 Million No’s Mean No</a>.” In this piece, she states, “Trump’s fabricated narrative that this election was stolen from him is strikingly similar to a rapist’s upside down view that no means yes.”

She adds, “For me, the anxiety the prospect of his re-election caused took many physical forms, including nausea that felt like a razor in my stomach which made it impossible to eat.” According to Shayne, “my fourteen-year old son observed before the election was over, Trump needed to lose so I could purge him from my body: He was clearly a bacteria preventing me from eating.”

She also claims that Trump's election to president in the first place is a “massive global metaphor for rape culture.” According to the professor, “I cried myself to sleep the Saturday before the election. I could not stop thinking about the prospect of having a man with a decades-long record of women and girls accusing him of sexual assault—including rape—re-elected president.” She believes that Trump will not be able to dodge accountability once he is out of office and hints at damning evidence of Trump's record of sexual violence.

Shayne discusses the field of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) in an article titled, “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2020/02/24/i-cant-believe-im-still-making-the-case-for-gender-women-sexuality-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Trump Era Proves That Women’s Studies Matters</a>.” She writes, “GWSS scholars, faculty, students, librarians and staff are running full speed—creating a living archive which responds to the violent, Trump-fueled misogynist, white supremacist, xenophobic era in which we are now submerged.”

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Published - December 28, 2022

Julie Shayne

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Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>
Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.
The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 
Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.
The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 
Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 
<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 
Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published &#8211; June 13, 2023

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/hatem-bazian/">Hatem Bazian</a> is a professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the <a href="https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/hatem-bazian">co-founder and assistant professor </a>at Zaytuna College, which is the only accredited American college in which the curriculum is based on Islamic fundamentals. Bazian’s resume is littered with antisemitic and pro-terror incidents, both on and off-campus.

When attending San Francisco State University, Bazian accused the student newspaper of being <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/19590/profiles-in-hate-hatem-bazian">infiltrated by “Jewish spies</a>,” and allegedly denied Jewish students jobs while serving as Student Body President, claiming their support of Israel exhibited their racism.

Bazian’s activism grew more militant with time. At an Islamic conference in 1999, he was quoted by the Detroit Free Press reciting an Islamic Hadith <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8865/hatem-bazian-personal-story">calling for the slaughter of Jews</a>.
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After 79 members of Students for Justice in Palestine were arrested for disrupting a Holocaust memorial, Bazian asserted that the university's actions were racially motivated. During the subsequently organized protests, Bazain <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/2018/10/22/berkeley-city-councils-shameful-tolerance-of-anti-semitism/">insinuated that powerful Jews controlled the University and orchestrated the arrests</a>.

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Bazian’s thinly veiled antisemitism is seamlessly <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hatem_Bazian">interlaced with his anti-Israel demagoguery</a>. A proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,  Bazian has called for the dismantlement of the state of Israel and has praised the terrorist group Hamas. Bazian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv5yaKxNgo&amp;ab_channel=HamasOnCampus">openly called for a domestic insurrection</a> within America. Calling the crowd to arms at a 2003 anti-war rally, Bazian called for an “Intifada” to start in America.

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The Intifada was then in the midst of its third year of blood-soaked carnage in Israel. Before it abated in 2006, <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel">over one thousand men, women, and children would perish</a> from sniper fire and suicide attacks on buses, markets, and restaurants. The most gruesome attacks included the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/26/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/">public lynching and disembowelment of two Israeli soldiers</a>, and the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/18-years-after-sbarro-suicide-attack-pa-has-paid-910823-to-the-culprits-598106">bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria</a>, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.

Extending to the classroom and beyond, Bazian has co-founded two anti-Israel groups: <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/SJP">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Bazian co-founded SJP with fellow professor <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/snehalshingavi">Snehal Shingavi</a> in 2001 in solidarity with Palestinian groups, as the Intifada raged in Israel. The group is known for its belligerent tactics and hostility towards Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. SJP openly calls for the destruction of Israel and has never been shy about their support for Hamas. <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Azka_Fayyaz">A student senator and member of SJP</a> at UC Davis <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-depicts-jewish-students-growing-insecurity-on-campus/">welcomed “Hamas and sharia law"</a> to campus.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF2qAJl65k&amp;ab_channel=CanaryMission">American Muslims for Palestine</a>, of which Bazian serves as Chairman, is rooted in the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Facing scrutiny by the federal government over its ties to overseas jihadist groups, IAP ceased operations in 2003 to avoid prosecution. Many of the staff then <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-SchanzerJ-20160419.pdf">reconstituted under the new banner of AMP with Bazian as Chairman</a>. Screenshots from IAP’s former website show that the group openly encouraged Islamic terrorism and what can only be described as ethnic cleansing of Jews.

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Bazian is a tenured professor at one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. Tens of thousands of students have passed through his classroom while accruing many thousands more in debt, over his many decades in academia. His radicalism isn’t hidden—Bazian has openly embraced and preached the most radical, violent, and bigoted positions imaginable and sought to inspire future leaders with those same values.

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UPDATE - May 27, 2022
A previous edition that attributed a quote to Hatem Bazian has been corrected and attributed to an article hosted on the IAP website in December, 2000

Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>

Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.

The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 

Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.

The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 

Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 

<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 

Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published - June 13, 2023