Jodi Shaw: Standing Against Regressive Orthodoxy at Smith College
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ACTA president Michael Poliakoff sits down with Jodi Shaw, an alumna and former employee of Smith College who took a courageous stand against critical race orthodoxy at Smith. Her story, reported in The New York Times and major news venues, prompted ACTA to award her with a Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award, to be presented later this year. In our podcast,\\xa0Shaw outlines the events and reasons leading to her resignation from Smith College, and elaborates on why she believes that what passes for \\u201cprogressive\\u201d at Smith and many other institutions today is actually deeply regressive.
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