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The four-week trial ended this month. On Nov. 15, the jury sided with the plaintiffs on claims that they were targeted by white employees and forced to endure racial harassment. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case\"]It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office.’[/pullquote]“It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office,” said Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case. “The hatred that is racism has no place in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard and Lee, who are both Black, process warrants for crime suspects at the sheriff’s office. The two spoke out about their experience and the verdict in their favor at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family was accused of being gang members,” Dillard told reporters at a Monday press conference. “It was overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their lawsuit, the women claimed they were repeatedly subject to explicitly racist language and other workplace discrimination and that they faced retaliation, including threats she could lose her job after complaining about officers who were perpetuating harmful behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included an incident where a supervisor named Sgt. Phyllis Washington referred to Dillard as a “monkey.” Attorneys representing the plaintiffs also said a noose was once presented in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard, who was also a union shop steward, reported her and other union members’ experience with racial discrimination at work. The department responded by issuing Dillard a cease-and-desist order to no longer communicate with employees in her unit, legal documents show. [aside postID=news_11964200 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Lee was accused of trying to steal information and said she experienced retaliation for seeking time off. A supervisor also called her a monkey, and a boss threatened to suspend her for raising concerns about the work environment. She was issued a cease-and-desist order as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called me a thief, a liar and a criminal. It really hurt,” Lee said. “I had endured so much before, and I just continued to sweep it underneath the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she was also asked to change her physical appearance, including her hairstyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was excruciating for me because I had to shave my head,” Lee said at a press conference on Monday. “They didn’t want me to color my hair, which I had been coloring for over 20 years. It was very emotional for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury unanimously agreed to provide the plaintiffs $1,139,400, with $523,400 going to Dillard and $616,000 for Lee. Both women remain working in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement with the city attorney, the Sheriff’s Department said it is committed to addressing harassing behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As one of the most diverse sheriff’s departments in the nation that values equity and inclusion, any form of harassment or discriminatory behavior is antithetical to our values,” the statement reads. “We are surprised and disappointed by the outcome of this case and will be working with the City Attorney’s Office to evaluate any next steps.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kim Lee, clerk, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department\"]‘I had endured so much before, and I just continued to sweep it underneath the rug.’[/pullquote]Alioto, the former San Francisco supervisor and civil rights attorney who represented the plaintiffs, said she intends to take up similar cases in other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wake-up call. The floodgates are open,” she said at the press conference on Monday. “Black people are treated so badly in each and every city department. Underpaid, less shift changes, less overtime, less sick time, for the same job just because you’re Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Lee said, “I’m happy I can move on. I can build myself back up, and I know I don’t ever have to be silenced on any job nowhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">Ezra David Romero\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco warrant clerks who sued the sheriff’s office in 2020 for racial harassment will receive a combined settlement of more than $1 million.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700529222,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":841},"headData":{"title":"SF Sheriff’s Department to Pay Over $1 Million for Hostile Work Environment | KQED","description":"San Francisco warrant clerks who sued the sheriff’s office in 2020 for racial harassment will receive a combined settlement of more than $1 million.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11967985/sf-sheriffs-department-to-pay-over-1-million-for-hostile-work-environment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A jury has awarded more than $1 million to two clerks in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department after the office failed to properly investigate claims that white employees subjected them to a hostile work environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs Danielle Dillard and Kim Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-sheriff-s-clerks-sue-San-Francisco-15458448.php\">sued their employers at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office in 2020\u003c/a> for violating the Fair Employment and Housing Act. The four-week trial ended this month. On Nov. 15, the jury sided with the plaintiffs on claims that they were targeted by white employees and forced to endure racial harassment. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s such a great victory that this jury saw right through the city’s pretexts and saw the insidious racism that is at different offices throughout the city, but specifically in this case at the sheriff’s office,” said Angela Alioto, lead trial counsel for the case. “The hatred that is racism has no place in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard and Lee, who are both Black, process warrants for crime suspects at the sheriff’s office. The two spoke out about their experience and the verdict in their favor at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family was accused of being gang members,” Dillard told reporters at a Monday press conference. “It was overwhelming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their lawsuit, the women claimed they were repeatedly subject to explicitly racist language and other workplace discrimination and that they faced retaliation, including threats she could lose her job after complaining about officers who were perpetuating harmful behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included an incident where a supervisor named Sgt. Phyllis Washington referred to Dillard as a “monkey.” Attorneys representing the plaintiffs also said a noose was once presented in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dillard, who was also a union shop steward, reported her and other union members’ experience with racial discrimination at work. The department responded by issuing Dillard a cease-and-desist order to no longer communicate with employees in her unit, legal documents show. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11964200","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67115_20230719-cityhallrally-10-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lee was accused of trying to steal information and said she experienced retaliation for seeking time off. A supervisor also called her a monkey, and a boss threatened to suspend her for raising concerns about the work environment. She was issued a cease-and-desist order as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called me a thief, a liar and a criminal. It really hurt,” Lee said. “I had endured so much before, and I just continued to sweep it underneath the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she was also asked to change her physical appearance, including her hairstyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was excruciating for me because I had to shave my head,” Lee said at a press conference on Monday. “They didn’t want me to color my hair, which I had been coloring for over 20 years. It was very emotional for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury unanimously agreed to provide the plaintiffs $1,139,400, with $523,400 going to Dillard and $616,000 for Lee. Both women remain working in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a joint statement with the city attorney, the Sheriff’s Department said it is committed to addressing harassing behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As one of the most diverse sheriff’s departments in the nation that values equity and inclusion, any form of harassment or discriminatory behavior is antithetical to our values,” the statement reads. “We are surprised and disappointed by the outcome of this case and will be working with the City Attorney’s Office to evaluate any next steps.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I had endured so much before, and I just continued to sweep it underneath the rug.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Kim Lee, clerk, San Francisco Sheriff’s Department","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alioto, the former San Francisco supervisor and civil rights attorney who represented the plaintiffs, said she intends to take up similar cases in other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wake-up call. The floodgates are open,” she said at the press conference on Monday. “Black people are treated so badly in each and every city department. Underpaid, less shift changes, less overtime, less sick time, for the same job just because you’re Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Lee said, “I’m happy I can move on. I can build myself back up, and I know I don’t ever have to be silenced on any job nowhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/eromero\">Ezra David Romero\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11967985/sf-sheriffs-department-to-pay-over-1-million-for-hostile-work-environment","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_21892","news_25944","news_19216","news_38","news_1973","news_33519"],"featImg":"news_11968000","label":"news"},"news_11965822":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11965822","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11965822","score":null,"sort":[1698490848000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","title":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking","publishDate":1698490848,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>This story contains a clarification.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing group of UC Berkeley students has been staging a months-long protest campaign demanding that the university bring a suspended Spanish and Portuguese professor back to campus. They’ve shared testimonies highlighting how influential Ivonne del Valle has been both as a mentor and as a leading scholar at a school with few Latinx faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Professor del Valle isn’t just any faculty member, she’s the top expert in colonial studies,” said Emily Chamale, a second year UC Berkeley student, at a protest last month. “The question that haunts me is: If someone as respected as her is going through such things at Berkeley, what might the future be for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records obtained by KQED paint a troubling picture of what led to del Valle’s suspension. Over three investigations, which looked into behavior that began in 2018 and continued through 2022, the university found del Valle had repeatedly harassed, stalked and retaliated against Joshua Clover, an English and Comparative Literature professor at UC Davis, and then violated orders not to contact him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Christián González Reyes, Ph.D. student\"]‘We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.’[/pullquote]Clover declined to comment on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student supporters contend del Valle was acting out of desperation, believing that she is actually the victim of harassment and online stalking. They are preparing to disrupt the Cal football game against the University of Southern California in an undisclosed manner on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want Ivonne back,” said Christián González Reyes, a Ph.D. student studying comparative literature, who is organizing with the campaign. “We’re not going to be silent anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters say del Valle is beloved at the university, where she is the only first-generation Mexican woman among faculty in the school’s Spanish and Portuguese Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If del Valle is not reinstated, a group of students plan to stage a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231025-ucberkeleyprofessor-20-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"signs posted on a school door\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster says, ‘Justice 4 Ivonne’ outside of a student-led town hall meeting to discuss future actions to reinstate professor del Valle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, del Valle acknowledged some of the behavior described in the investigative reports, including keying Clover’s car, vandalizing the area outside his apartment door, contacting his friends, posting an image of his partner online and leaving messages outside the home of his mother. Those messages included one that said “I raised a psychopath,” according to the university’s investigative reports. She has also acknowledged in the report calling Clover’s office phone line at least ten times within 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout each official investigation, del Valle maintains that her actions were the result of being hacked, and that she was not receiving the support she needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle said. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle said that she regretted visiting the mother’s home, but disagreed that the message towards Clover’s mother was a threat or that any of her behavior was sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had been trying hard to get the attention of anyone who could help her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never received help from anybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley spokesperson, Janet Gilmore, declined to comment on the specifics of the case, citing privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This means that the university may not publicly disclose confidential information or correct the record if others choose to share — or misrepresent — information related to a private matter,” Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore added that faculty misconduct allegations are not unilaterally handled by the administration, and that if the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee determines that it is more likely than not in sexual harassment cases that misconduct occurred, then the committee forwards a disciplinary recommendation, up to and including termination, to the chancellor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, termination of a tenured faculty member then requires approval by the UC Board of Regents, Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three investigations find misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first investigation, which was completed by UC Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in 2019, found a preponderance of evidence — determined to be more likely to be true than not — that del Valle violated the university’s provisions against stalking and sexual harassment and retaliated against Clover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property,” the 2019 investigative report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle, who has been at UC Berkeley since 2009, said that she was attempting to defend herself when university officials and police all failed to take her concerns that she had been hacked seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"UC Berkeley's 2019 investigative report into professor del Valle's behavior\"]‘The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property.’[/pullquote]KQED could not substantiate del Valle’s allegations that her devices had been hacked by Clover or anyone else. She provided documentation of an analysis of her laptop and cell phone, which found the phone had been compromised, but the computer showed no evidence of hacking or cyber attack. The analysis falls short of proving that any particular person, including Clover, illegally accessed her devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019 investigative report, the UC Berkeley Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination found there was “insufficient evidence to support a finding” that Clover had “engaged in any hacking of Respondent’s electronic devices and is harassing or stalking her online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle says after writing messages to friends or family members on her phone or computer, tweets from the professor on similar topics would appear. However, documentation provided by del Valle does not prove that anyone has eavesdropped on her messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She provided KQED 261 pages in multiple documents that she addressed to a UC Berkeley administrator and review committee. The documents include several dozen instances of why she believes she was hacked. For example, she cites writing a message to a relative in April 2019 mentioning trucks, and then a Twitter account she claimed belonged to Clover tweeted about “similar trucks” that same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator also wrote that substantiating the hacking claims was outside their scope and did not “negate the preponderance of the evidence” that del Valle’s conduct “would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer substantial emotional distress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest investigated complaint goes back to May 2018, when del Valle, who met Clover after he gave a talk at UC Berkeley, began sending him Twitter messages saying someone was bothering her and calling her names, according to the investigative report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December that same year, del Valle acknowledged in the investigation knocking on Clover’s apartment door and telling him she “was not leaving until he opened the door and explained what he was doing by hacking her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sitting outside Clover’s apartment, according to the report, del Valle slid a note under his door that said, “If you make me leave, it’ll be worse” and then later left him a voicemail, saying, “I can do whatever the fuck I want piece of shit” and “You need to still call me and apologize or you’ll see what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, del Valle vandalized Clover’s car and residence, investigators found. Del Valle also acknowledges those actions in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover told investigators he moved out of his apartment building in large part because of a “persistent sense of and considerable lack of safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the report that the whole experience has been psychologically destructive. He described a hyper vigilance that is “accompanied by an anxiety that is similarly corrosive. It’s miserable and I don’t think it will ever go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a settlement agreement in 2020, del Valle agreed not to contact Clover or any of his friends, family, relatives or students. But the following year, del Valle violated that agreement, according to the second investigation conducted by UC Berkeley in 2021, when she left messages outside and near the home of Clover’s mother, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do understand it’s hard to side with me in that moment, and I was punished for that without salary and benefits,” del Valle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that violation, Del Valle was suspended for nine months beginning in November 2021. In its third investigation, the university then found she had again violated the no-contact order in 2022. She said that in the most recent violation she was asking for help from the police on social media, and that she had shared a photograph of Clover’s partner online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"UC Berkeley Professor Ivonne del Valle\"]‘My life is completely destroyed. I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.’[/pullquote]Del Valle said since the suspension in the fall of 2021, she has not been teaching at UC Berkeley and has been living out of two suitcases because of the uncertainty around her future. She said she could accept an 18-month suspension UC Berkeley offered as a settlement, but has no plans to do so. If she doesn’t accept that outcome, the case could instead be brought before the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee, and she could lose her tenure and be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life is completely destroyed,” del Valle said. “I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover has stirred his own share of controversy. He was widely criticized for a 2014 tweet saying he was thankful that all living police officers “would one day be dead.” He later advocated killing police officers, and suggested the easiest way would be to shoot them in the back. UC Davis’ chancellor \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/statements-regarding-public-comments-made-by-tenured-member-faculty\">condemned those statements\u003c/a> in 2019 but said they were protected free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The campaign to bring del Valle back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the push to reinstate del Valle and who have testified to her character say the university should have thoroughly investigated her claims of electronic hacking and provided institutional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has been publishing written, anonymous testimonies on social media about the positive impact del Valle has had on the academic and personal lives of students and alums. Nearly 30 letters posted so far describe how del Valle made her students feel welcome, inspired them to study colonial Latin America and shaped the course of their academic careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ivonne’s vast knowledge of Hispanic culture was not the only thing I was immediately shaken by; it was also her professional, humble, and welcoming attitude toward us first-year students,” one letter says. “She was doubtlessly wise and an extremely ethical, politically engaged, and ethically committed professor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alejandra Decker, Ph.D. student\"]‘Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies.’[/pullquote]Alejandra Decker, a Ph.D. candidate studying Mexican literature and culture and organizer with the campaign to reinstate del Valle, said the outcrying of support shows how missed del Valle is at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies,” Decker said. “And so no one is coming to Berkeley right now to study colonial studies because we have no one to advise them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decker began her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2018, and del Valle would soon become her primary faculty mentor in the field of Mexican Studies. She took every single graduate and undergraduate class with del Valle that she could, she said, and saw her as a “gem” of an academic advisor who welcomed students, checked in on whether they needed help and offered to write them letters of recommendation before they even asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When del Valle was suspended in 2021, Decker says students were concerned and began seeking answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for this entire time, there was never any official communication from our department, which was very hard for us,” Decker said. “Had we not had these conversations with Professor Ivonne, we really would have just thought that our professor had disappeared and no one could tell us why, which takes the rug out [from under] your feet and makes you feel really unstable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231026-ivonne-del-valle-hm-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a megaphone in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of young people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students rally on Sept. 21 at the University of California, Berkeley, calling for the reinstatement of Ivonne del Valle. \u003ccite>(Holly McDede/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she and other students have read the records describing del Valle’s behavior. But she says organizers still stand by del Valle, and that it’s not her place to judge a woman’s actions when in turmoil and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those reports — anyone who reads them, I think we can all admit that they are difficult to read because they paint Professor Ivonne in a way that personally I’ve never seen,” Decker said. “It’s a woman’s actions in her biggest moments of survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hunger strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decker is not alone. More than 275 people and more than 15 organizations have also signed an online petition calling for her reinstatement. Supporters have begun preparing for this Saturday’s football game and the hunger strike to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their Oct. 11 letter announcing the plan, students reference Berkeley’s long history of activism, including the 1999 Ethnic Studies Strike. That strike led to the Multicultural Community Center and the Center of Race and Gender on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reiterate, how far are you willing to go before you fix an injustice?” the letter says. “Are you willing to risk students’ lives over this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle has said that if she does lose her job at UC Berkeley, she plans to return to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, she does not want to give up on staying at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my university. They are my students. I obtained a job here that I deserve,” she said. “I’m a good teacher, the service I’ve brought to the university, I think it’s significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 28: UC Berkeley initially described the standard of evidence applied by the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee as a clear and convincing standard. After publication of this story, a university spokesperson clarified that in sexual harassment cases, the standard of evidence is a preponderance of evidence. The story has been updated to clarify this.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following multiple investigations by the university, UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle was suspended for harassment, retaliatory behavior and violating no-contact orders regarding a UC Davis professor.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1698687668,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":58,"wordCount":2629},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Students Threaten Hunger Strike to Reinstate Professor Suspended for Stalking | KQED","description":"Following multiple investigations by the university, UC Berkeley professor Ivonne del Valle was suspended for harassment, retaliatory behavior and violating no-contact orders regarding a UC Davis professor.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This story contains a clarification.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing group of UC Berkeley students has been staging a months-long protest campaign demanding that the university bring a suspended Spanish and Portuguese professor back to campus. They’ve shared testimonies highlighting how influential Ivonne del Valle has been both as a mentor and as a leading scholar at a school with few Latinx faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Professor del Valle isn’t just any faculty member, she’s the top expert in colonial studies,” said Emily Chamale, a second year UC Berkeley student, at a protest last month. “The question that haunts me is: If someone as respected as her is going through such things at Berkeley, what might the future be for the rest of us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records obtained by KQED paint a troubling picture of what led to del Valle’s suspension. Over three investigations, which looked into behavior that began in 2018 and continued through 2022, the university found del Valle had repeatedly harassed, stalked and retaliated against Joshua Clover, an English and Comparative Literature professor at UC Davis, and then violated orders not to contact him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Christián González Reyes, Ph.D. student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Clover declined to comment on the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student supporters contend del Valle was acting out of desperation, believing that she is actually the victim of harassment and online stalking. They are preparing to disrupt the Cal football game against the University of Southern California in an undisclosed manner on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want Ivonne back,” said Christián González Reyes, a Ph.D. student studying comparative literature, who is organizing with the campaign. “We’re not going to be silent anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters say del Valle is beloved at the university, where she is the only first-generation Mexican woman among faculty in the school’s Spanish and Portuguese Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If del Valle is not reinstated, a group of students plan to stage a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231025-ucberkeleyprofessor-20-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"signs posted on a school door\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-UCBerkeleyProfessor-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster says, ‘Justice 4 Ivonne’ outside of a student-led town hall meeting to discuss future actions to reinstate professor del Valle. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, del Valle acknowledged some of the behavior described in the investigative reports, including keying Clover’s car, vandalizing the area outside his apartment door, contacting his friends, posting an image of his partner online and leaving messages outside the home of his mother. Those messages included one that said “I raised a psychopath,” according to the university’s investigative reports. She has also acknowledged in the report calling Clover’s office phone line at least ten times within 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout each official investigation, del Valle maintains that her actions were the result of being hacked, and that she was not receiving the support she needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle said. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle said that she regretted visiting the mother’s home, but disagreed that the message towards Clover’s mother was a threat or that any of her behavior was sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had been trying hard to get the attention of anyone who could help her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never received help from anybody,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC Berkeley spokesperson, Janet Gilmore, declined to comment on the specifics of the case, citing privacy laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This means that the university may not publicly disclose confidential information or correct the record if others choose to share — or misrepresent — information related to a private matter,” Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilmore added that faculty misconduct allegations are not unilaterally handled by the administration, and that if the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee determines that it is more likely than not in sexual harassment cases that misconduct occurred, then the committee forwards a disciplinary recommendation, up to and including termination, to the chancellor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, termination of a tenured faculty member then requires approval by the UC Board of Regents, Gilmore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Three investigations find misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first investigation, which was completed by UC Berkeley’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in 2019, found a preponderance of evidence — determined to be more likely to be true than not — that del Valle violated the university’s provisions against stalking and sexual harassment and retaliated against Clover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property,” the 2019 investigative report concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle, who has been at UC Berkeley since 2009, said that she was attempting to defend herself when university officials and police all failed to take her concerns that she had been hacked seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"UC Berkeley's 2019 investigative report into professor del Valle's behavior","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>KQED could not substantiate del Valle’s allegations that her devices had been hacked by Clover or anyone else. She provided documentation of an analysis of her laptop and cell phone, which found the phone had been compromised, but the computer showed no evidence of hacking or cyber attack. The analysis falls short of proving that any particular person, including Clover, illegally accessed her devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019 investigative report, the UC Berkeley Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination found there was “insufficient evidence to support a finding” that Clover had “engaged in any hacking of Respondent’s electronic devices and is harassing or stalking her online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle says after writing messages to friends or family members on her phone or computer, tweets from the professor on similar topics would appear. However, documentation provided by del Valle does not prove that anyone has eavesdropped on her messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She provided KQED 261 pages in multiple documents that she addressed to a UC Berkeley administrator and review committee. The documents include several dozen instances of why she believes she was hacked. For example, she cites writing a message to a relative in April 2019 mentioning trucks, and then a Twitter account she claimed belonged to Clover tweeted about “similar trucks” that same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator also wrote that substantiating the hacking claims was outside their scope and did not “negate the preponderance of the evidence” that del Valle’s conduct “would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer substantial emotional distress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The earliest investigated complaint goes back to May 2018, when del Valle, who met Clover after he gave a talk at UC Berkeley, began sending him Twitter messages saying someone was bothering her and calling her names, according to the investigative report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December that same year, del Valle acknowledged in the investigation knocking on Clover’s apartment door and telling him she “was not leaving until he opened the door and explained what he was doing by hacking her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sitting outside Clover’s apartment, according to the report, del Valle slid a note under his door that said, “If you make me leave, it’ll be worse” and then later left him a voicemail, saying, “I can do whatever the fuck I want piece of shit” and “You need to still call me and apologize or you’ll see what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, del Valle vandalized Clover’s car and residence, investigators found. Del Valle also acknowledges those actions in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover told investigators he moved out of his apartment building in large part because of a “persistent sense of and considerable lack of safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in the report that the whole experience has been psychologically destructive. He described a hyper vigilance that is “accompanied by an anxiety that is similarly corrosive. It’s miserable and I don’t think it will ever go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a settlement agreement in 2020, del Valle agreed not to contact Clover or any of his friends, family, relatives or students. But the following year, del Valle violated that agreement, according to the second investigation conducted by UC Berkeley in 2021, when she left messages outside and near the home of Clover’s mother, among other violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do understand it’s hard to side with me in that moment, and I was punished for that without salary and benefits,” del Valle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following that violation, Del Valle was suspended for nine months beginning in November 2021. In its third investigation, the university then found she had again violated the no-contact order in 2022. She said that in the most recent violation she was asking for help from the police on social media, and that she had shared a photograph of Clover’s partner online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘My life is completely destroyed. I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"UC Berkeley Professor Ivonne del Valle","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Del Valle said since the suspension in the fall of 2021, she has not been teaching at UC Berkeley and has been living out of two suitcases because of the uncertainty around her future. She said she could accept an 18-month suspension UC Berkeley offered as a settlement, but has no plans to do so. If she doesn’t accept that outcome, the case could instead be brought before the university’s Privilege and Tenure Committee, and she could lose her tenure and be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My life is completely destroyed,” del Valle said. “I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clover has stirred his own share of controversy. He was widely criticized for a 2014 tweet saying he was thankful that all living police officers “would one day be dead.” He later advocated killing police officers, and suggested the easiest way would be to shoot them in the back. UC Davis’ chancellor \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/statements-regarding-public-comments-made-by-tenured-member-faculty\">condemned those statements\u003c/a> in 2019 but said they were protected free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The campaign to bring del Valle back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the push to reinstate del Valle and who have testified to her character say the university should have thoroughly investigated her claims of electronic hacking and provided institutional support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign has been publishing written, anonymous testimonies on social media about the positive impact del Valle has had on the academic and personal lives of students and alums. Nearly 30 letters posted so far describe how del Valle made her students feel welcome, inspired them to study colonial Latin America and shaped the course of their academic careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ivonne’s vast knowledge of Hispanic culture was not the only thing I was immediately shaken by; it was also her professional, humble, and welcoming attitude toward us first-year students,” one letter says. “She was doubtlessly wise and an extremely ethical, politically engaged, and ethically committed professor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alejandra Decker, Ph.D. student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Alejandra Decker, a Ph.D. candidate studying Mexican literature and culture and organizer with the campaign to reinstate del Valle, said the outcrying of support shows how missed del Valle is at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department is missing an entire field of study, so we have no one that is an expert on colonial studies,” Decker said. “And so no one is coming to Berkeley right now to study colonial studies because we have no one to advise them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decker began her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2018, and del Valle would soon become her primary faculty mentor in the field of Mexican Studies. She took every single graduate and undergraduate class with del Valle that she could, she said, and saw her as a “gem” of an academic advisor who welcomed students, checked in on whether they needed help and offered to write them letters of recommendation before they even asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When del Valle was suspended in 2021, Decker says students were concerned and began seeking answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And for this entire time, there was never any official communication from our department, which was very hard for us,” Decker said. “Had we not had these conversations with Professor Ivonne, we really would have just thought that our professor had disappeared and no one could tell us why, which takes the rug out [from under] your feet and makes you feel really unstable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/231026-ivonne-del-valle-hm-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a megaphone in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of young people.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231026-IVONNE-DEL-VALLE-HM-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students rally on Sept. 21 at the University of California, Berkeley, calling for the reinstatement of Ivonne del Valle. \u003ccite>(Holly McDede/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said she and other students have read the records describing del Valle’s behavior. But she says organizers still stand by del Valle, and that it’s not her place to judge a woman’s actions when in turmoil and isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those reports — anyone who reads them, I think we can all admit that they are difficult to read because they paint Professor Ivonne in a way that personally I’ve never seen,” Decker said. “It’s a woman’s actions in her biggest moments of survival.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The hunger strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Decker is not alone. More than 275 people and more than 15 organizations have also signed an online petition calling for her reinstatement. Supporters have begun preparing for this Saturday’s football game and the hunger strike to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their Oct. 11 letter announcing the plan, students reference Berkeley’s long history of activism, including the 1999 Ethnic Studies Strike. That strike led to the Multicultural Community Center and the Center of Race and Gender on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reiterate, how far are you willing to go before you fix an injustice?” the letter says. “Are you willing to risk students’ lives over this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Del Valle has said that if she does lose her job at UC Berkeley, she plans to return to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, she does not want to give up on staying at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is my university. They are my students. I obtained a job here that I deserve,” she said. “I’m a good teacher, the service I’ve brought to the university, I think it’s significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 28: UC Berkeley initially described the standard of evidence applied by the Academic Senate’s Privilege and Tenure Committee as a clear and convincing standard. After publication of this story, a university spokesperson clarified that in sexual harassment cases, the standard of evidence is a preponderance of evidence. The story has been updated to clarify this.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking","authors":["11635"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21892","news_17597"],"featImg":"news_11965710","label":"news"},"news_11917071":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11917071","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11917071","score":null,"sort":[1655244240000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","title":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords","publishDate":1655244240,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Araceli Guerra moved into her small, two-bedroom apartment in Concord three years ago, it wasn’t in the best shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were cockroaches and mice. Some of the kitchen cabinets were missing doors. Still, Guerra was having trouble finding somewhere she could afford and was running out of time on her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were almost homeless,” she said in Spanish. “And the landlord didn’t ask for a security deposit or anything like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and her five children moved in. The landlord would periodically bring someone to fumigate the building, but it didn’t seem to matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cockroaches, the mice,” she said, “they never go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shanti Singh, spokesperson, Tenants Together\"]'As people get pushed out further and further, often inland, they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about three months ago, Guerra said things got really bad. Some new tenants moved in. They drink a lot. And Guerra said they use the alley behind the building to urinate, right below her apartment, which she said brought in even more vermin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last month, Guerra called the city’s building inspector. A few days later, she got an eviction notice. She thinks it’s retaliation. KQED could not reach Guerra’s landlord for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Guerra says she’s getting headaches from the stress of thinking about where she and her family are going to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She may have new recourse under new tenant anti-harassment rules the Concord City Council approved Tuesday. The city is now the latest in a handful of cities across California to adopt such policies since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://longbeach.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=813432&GUID=280A311A-0B63-4965-8CDD-BE64B3D9540C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/11320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond\u003c/a> all have approved new rules to stop landlords from harassing their tenants. And councilmembers in Antioch and Chula Vista are considering similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917097 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56616_20220609_TenantsRally-06-e1655239617317.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of three paper hearts -- white, pastel pink, and pastel purple -- with handwritten notes in red and purple pen, clipped with tiny blue and red wooden clothespins to multicolored ribbons: red, green, sheer, dark pink. The backdrop is a shimmery, crimson tablecloth with a paisley border, and blurry below it, on the other side of what must be a table, is a green lawn and what looks like a pair of ankles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayers written on cut-out paper hearts hang from an altar during a tenants rally at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. Tenants and their supporters gathered at the plaza in support of Concord's proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ rights organizations say the pandemic fueled an increase in calls about landlord harassment. They say they saw landlords shutting off utilities, threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the locks, or taking other actions meant to intimidate tenants into leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a spokesperson for the statewide organization Tenants Together, said the group’s tenant hotline was overwhelmed with calls during the pandemic – many of them complaints about alleged harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harassment really, really went up during COVID from the beginning,\" Singh said, \"but especially as the rent relief program sort of wore on and people were waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11911666,news_11906451,news_11905386 label='Related Coverage']She said the slow rollout of rent relief, coupled with the eviction moratorium, meant frustrated landlords were looking for other ways to get their tenants to pay or leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Singh said another reason more tenants in cities like Concord are pushing for these proposals is that, over the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904495/a-suburb-with-an-eviction-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more people of color and especially lower-income renters\u003c/a> have been moving away from expensive coastal cities in search of housing they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As people get pushed out further and further, often inland,” she said, “they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord advocates have been pushing back against these new local policies, saying they’re unnecessary since the state already has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/landlord-harassment/\">laws that prohibit landlords from harassing their tenants\u003c/a>. Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, criticized the local policies for being overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What these ordinances do is they invite excessive penalties on landlords for making what could be considered an innocent mistake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1918px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917109 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56627_20220609_TenantsRally-18-e1655243996802.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand in a row outdoors before a backdrop of lush, green trees. The woman in the center, a middle-aged Latina with curly, shoulder-length black hair and wireless glasses, wears a short-sleeved black cassock with a white clerical collar, and a bright stole of a warm yellow that turns to orange, then pink, then purple on both sides. She has her eyes closed and her arms held out, palms up, and appears to be speaking. On both sides of her stands a middle-aged women, one with short gray hair, the other with white gray hair. Both are dressed casually in short-sleeved tops. The woman to her right stands slightly behind her, looking at her as she speaks, sunglasses tucked into her rose T-shirt and a purse hanging from one shoulder. The woman on her left bows her head, hands behind her back, the white wires of headphones coming from both ears.\" width=\"1918\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Leslie Taylor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Concord offers a prayer during a tenants rally and vigil at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The local ordinances expand the definition of what can be considered harassment beyond what’s already allowed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~asucrla/Harassment%20by%20Your%20Landlord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state law\u003c/a>. In Concord, \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">that includes behaviors like\u003c/a> failing to accept rent payments, failing to make timely repairs, or entering the rental unit outside business hours unless requested to do so by the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also add penalties — up to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\">$10,000 in Los Angeles\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">$5,000 in Concord\u003c/a> — for violating the city’s anti-harassment policy, on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1940.2.&lawCode=CIV\">$2,000 allowed under state law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only could the landlord be sued under state law, but they could also be sued now under the local law,” Howard said, blasting these policies as excessively punitive. “It creates a double penalty and a second mechanism to sue the owner and impose some significant fines, fees and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizers say those penalties are necessary to send a strong message to landlords and property managers that harassment won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really does empower tenants,” Singh said. “What they know instinctively is that this [behavior] is wrong, but for it to be wrong legally actually gives them a lot of strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tenant advocates say eviction moratoriums and the slow rollout of rent relief have led to a spike in harassment by landlords during the pandemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655327902,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":929},"headData":{"title":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords | KQED","description":"Tenant advocates say eviction moratoriums and the slow rollout of rent relief have led to a spike in harassment by landlords during the pandemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11917071 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11917071","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/14/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords/","disqusTitle":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/8cadaf7e-d672-4dd0-b6a7-aeb40108674e/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11917071/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Araceli Guerra moved into her small, two-bedroom apartment in Concord three years ago, it wasn’t in the best shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were cockroaches and mice. Some of the kitchen cabinets were missing doors. Still, Guerra was having trouble finding somewhere she could afford and was running out of time on her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were almost homeless,” she said in Spanish. “And the landlord didn’t ask for a security deposit or anything like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and her five children moved in. The landlord would periodically bring someone to fumigate the building, but it didn’t seem to matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cockroaches, the mice,” she said, “they never go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'As people get pushed out further and further, often inland, they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Shanti Singh, spokesperson, Tenants Together","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about three months ago, Guerra said things got really bad. Some new tenants moved in. They drink a lot. And Guerra said they use the alley behind the building to urinate, right below her apartment, which she said brought in even more vermin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last month, Guerra called the city’s building inspector. A few days later, she got an eviction notice. She thinks it’s retaliation. KQED could not reach Guerra’s landlord for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Guerra says she’s getting headaches from the stress of thinking about where she and her family are going to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She may have new recourse under new tenant anti-harassment rules the Concord City Council approved Tuesday. The city is now the latest in a handful of cities across California to adopt such policies since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://longbeach.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=813432&GUID=280A311A-0B63-4965-8CDD-BE64B3D9540C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/11320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond\u003c/a> all have approved new rules to stop landlords from harassing their tenants. And councilmembers in Antioch and Chula Vista are considering similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917097 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56616_20220609_TenantsRally-06-e1655239617317.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of three paper hearts -- white, pastel pink, and pastel purple -- with handwritten notes in red and purple pen, clipped with tiny blue and red wooden clothespins to multicolored ribbons: red, green, sheer, dark pink. The backdrop is a shimmery, crimson tablecloth with a paisley border, and blurry below it, on the other side of what must be a table, is a green lawn and what looks like a pair of ankles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayers written on cut-out paper hearts hang from an altar during a tenants rally at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. Tenants and their supporters gathered at the plaza in support of Concord's proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ rights organizations say the pandemic fueled an increase in calls about landlord harassment. They say they saw landlords shutting off utilities, threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the locks, or taking other actions meant to intimidate tenants into leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a spokesperson for the statewide organization Tenants Together, said the group’s tenant hotline was overwhelmed with calls during the pandemic – many of them complaints about alleged harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harassment really, really went up during COVID from the beginning,\" Singh said, \"but especially as the rent relief program sort of wore on and people were waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11911666,news_11906451,news_11905386","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said the slow rollout of rent relief, coupled with the eviction moratorium, meant frustrated landlords were looking for other ways to get their tenants to pay or leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Singh said another reason more tenants in cities like Concord are pushing for these proposals is that, over the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904495/a-suburb-with-an-eviction-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more people of color and especially lower-income renters\u003c/a> have been moving away from expensive coastal cities in search of housing they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As people get pushed out further and further, often inland,” she said, “they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord advocates have been pushing back against these new local policies, saying they’re unnecessary since the state already has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/landlord-harassment/\">laws that prohibit landlords from harassing their tenants\u003c/a>. Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, criticized the local policies for being overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What these ordinances do is they invite excessive penalties on landlords for making what could be considered an innocent mistake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1918px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917109 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56627_20220609_TenantsRally-18-e1655243996802.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand in a row outdoors before a backdrop of lush, green trees. The woman in the center, a middle-aged Latina with curly, shoulder-length black hair and wireless glasses, wears a short-sleeved black cassock with a white clerical collar, and a bright stole of a warm yellow that turns to orange, then pink, then purple on both sides. She has her eyes closed and her arms held out, palms up, and appears to be speaking. On both sides of her stands a middle-aged women, one with short gray hair, the other with white gray hair. Both are dressed casually in short-sleeved tops. The woman to her right stands slightly behind her, looking at her as she speaks, sunglasses tucked into her rose T-shirt and a purse hanging from one shoulder. The woman on her left bows her head, hands behind her back, the white wires of headphones coming from both ears.\" width=\"1918\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Leslie Taylor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Concord offers a prayer during a tenants rally and vigil at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The local ordinances expand the definition of what can be considered harassment beyond what’s already allowed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~asucrla/Harassment%20by%20Your%20Landlord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state law\u003c/a>. In Concord, \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">that includes behaviors like\u003c/a> failing to accept rent payments, failing to make timely repairs, or entering the rental unit outside business hours unless requested to do so by the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also add penalties — up to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\">$10,000 in Los Angeles\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">$5,000 in Concord\u003c/a> — for violating the city’s anti-harassment policy, on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1940.2.&lawCode=CIV\">$2,000 allowed under state law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only could the landlord be sued under state law, but they could also be sued now under the local law,” Howard said, blasting these policies as excessively punitive. “It creates a double penalty and a second mechanism to sue the owner and impose some significant fines, fees and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizers say those penalties are necessary to send a strong message to landlords and property managers that harassment won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really does empower tenants,” Singh said. “What they know instinctively is that this [behavior] is wrong, but for it to be wrong legally actually gives them a lot of strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11917071/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","authors":["11652"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_18538","news_27701","news_30874","news_18372","news_27626","news_21892","news_1775","news_28957","news_28286","news_31229"],"featImg":"news_11917093","label":"news_72"},"news_11915565":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11915565","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11915565","score":null,"sort":[1654039051000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"private-colleges-want-more-power-to-police-trespassers-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":"Private Colleges Want More Power to Police Trespassers. Here's What You Need to Know","publishDate":1654039051,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Private colleges in California want more power to rein in trespassing on their campuses, particularly when people repeatedly enter to harass students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willful trespassing on the campuses of California’s K-12 schools and public universities is considered a misdemeanor, and can result in jail time. But private colleges can only hand out warning letters.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director, Equal Rights Advocates\"]'I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe.'[/pullquote]The issue is at the center of a bill that is one chamber away from reaching Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Private colleges say that the current situation hampers their ability to protect students — but some students worry that the proposed changes could make campuses feel cut off from surrounding neighborhoods and lead to racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-trespassing letters are ineffective because there isn’t a clear consequence for violating them, say the bill’s supporters, which include policing associations and the 86-member Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the association has heard reports of people entering campuses to make racist comments toward Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Trespassers who sexually harass female students also are an issue, said Alex Graves, the association’s vice president for government relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bill highlights a complicated dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many private college campuses in California are open spaces, including the Claremont Colleges and Santa Clara University, which support the bill. Community members pass through often to walk their dogs or relax on the manicured lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open nature of campuses makes reining in trespassing “a very difficult line to walk,” said Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, a gender-justice nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you should know about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB748\">Senate Bill 748\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which changes would the bill make?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill would rework a section of the state’s criminal code that right now applies only to public colleges or universities and public and private K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those schools, the law says that it’s a misdemeanor for a person to “willfully and knowingly” enter a campus after having been banned. A person can be barred for disrupting a campus or facility’s “orderly operation,” according to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would expand the provision to include private colleges and universities. Punishment for a violation is either a fine of no more than $500 or imprisonment in county jail for no longer than six months, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Sen. Anthony Portantino, a San Fernando Valley Democrat, the bill passed the state Senate 34-0 in January and is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do private campuses currently handle trespassing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s use the University of San Diego as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university supports the bill. It has the kind of idyllic campus that the general public regularly visits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.edu/about/fast-facts.php\">180 acres overlooking San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fairly common for the university’s police force to be summoned to disturbances involving people who have entered campus, said James Miyashiro, assistant vice president of safety at USD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an unhoused man barricaded himself in a campus bathroom, and threatened to return once police told him to leave, said Miyashiro, who watched footage from an officer’s body camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altercations with students also occur. People come to campus to play pickup games and sometimes get in fights with students who have the space reserved, or make comments that offend students, who then report them to the police, Miyashiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When campus police get such a report, they ask the person to leave campus. If they come back, officers give them a letter barring them from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “that doesn’t have a lot of teeth behind it,” Miyashiro said. And city police are reluctant to respond to trespassing issues on campus, particularly during hours when the buildings are open, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyashiro contrasted the dynamic with his experience at two public universities where he worked previously: the University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside Community College District. There, campus police could tell a person causing a disturbance that if they returned within seven days, they could be arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:86c7c3bd-6880-3f3b-a2c2-8f5178884c18\">city police associations back the bill\u003c/a>, including the Riverside Sheriffs' Association and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equal Rights Advocates also decided to support the measure, Stender said, based on what it has heard from students who have been victims of sexual assault or harassment. Sometimes, the attacker will return to campus to continue harassing or even assault them again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence of a misdemeanor charge brings clarity, said John Ojeisekhoba, the president-elect of a campus-policing association that supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give an officer a significant level of deterrence. That will be the difference. Right now, there’s just no such thing, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could this bill lead to racial profiling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several students said they are concerned about this outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alessia Milstein, who graduated this spring from Pitzer College, said there should be other options for how people get help instead of defaulting to calling the police. Milstein was involved in the Claremont Colleges’ Prison Abolition Collective, a club that educates students about prison and police abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11915577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman who was involved in abolition activism at Pitzer College stands, looking seriously at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alessia Milstein graduated this spring from Pitzer College, in Claremont. She was involved in abolition activism on campus. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to remember that everyone is subject to having racial biases — and relying on police to decide who belongs on campus is “allowing those to run freely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like it’s kind of the epitome, again, of why police don’t work,” Milstein said. “You’re trying to solve every conflict with a catchall that is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are “more negatives than positives” with the bill, said Tess Gibbs, a rising senior at Scripps College, who is also part of the collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Gibbs said she worries the bill could make campus into a sort of “fortress,” cut off from the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students, which seems to be its intention,” Gibbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A movement to reduce police presence on California campuses has grown over the last several years, following a nationwide reckoning over the scope of police power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the University of California and California State University, some students have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2020/06/students-push-uc-to-abolish-police-departments/\">called for abolishing, or increasing oversight of, campus police departments\u003c/a>, particularly because of concerns over aggressive policing of protests and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/03/uc-cal-state-police-diversity-whiter-than-students/\">racial profiling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And racism regularly leads to people of color being deemed suspicious. One such incident that garnered national attention: In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\">a white student at Yale University called campus police after seeing a Black student asleep in the dorm common room\u003c/a>. Several police officers responded to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure it’s applied in a way that makes sense,” Portantino said of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked via email about concerns that the bill could lead to racial profiling or harassment of unhoused people, he said that the measure isn’t meant to be used for anything other than “fostering prudent student and campus safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How could campus police avoid over-policing, if the bill becomes law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several campus safety officials interviewed said they intended to use the bill’s power just as needed, rather than overdo it. Of course, that’s easier said than done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ojeisekhoba, of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, acknowledged that mistakes can happen. Still, he said he has seen a shift in how campus police respond to reports of suspicious behavior. As an example, he pointed to the private university where he is chief of police, Biola University in La Mirada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of immediately sending an officer to the scene after getting a call about suspicious behavior, dispatchers are trained to ask more questions in the hopes of figuring out whether there is actually an issue. The approach is meant to “reduce potential mistakes or the appearance of racial profiling,” he said.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tess Gibbs, Scripps College student\"]'I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students.'[/pullquote]Stan Skipworth, associate vice president of campus safety at the Claremont Colleges, also said in an email that jail time isn’t necessary in all instances of trespassing — just the most egregious cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of relying on police, students should learn to count on community members when problems arise, said Alaia Zaki, a rising senior at the University of San Francisco. Zaki is part of the university’s chapter of Alliance for Change, an organization that helps people transition from prison and reenter communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/\">pod-mapping\u003c/a> as potential inspiration. The approach has been championed by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, an Oakland-based group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pods are meant to be a way to deal with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic\">small harms\u003c/a> by relying on a group of trusted friends or neighbors. For example, instead of calling the police, a person could reach out to their pod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a relationship founded on community would be kind of a game-changer because you would have people that you know, and hopefully respect and trust, coming to deescalate your situations,” Zaki said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nElina Lingappa is a fellow with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/college-journalism-network/\">CalMatters College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage is supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Senate Bill 748 would change the rules for how police respond to trespassers on campus — but students worry it could lead to racial profiling.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1654043503,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1688},"headData":{"title":"Private Colleges Want More Power to Police Trespassers. Here's What You Need to Know | KQED","description":"Senate Bill 748 would change the rules for how police respond to trespassers on campus — but students worry it could lead to racial profiling.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11915565 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11915565","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/31/private-colleges-want-more-power-to-police-trespassers-heres-what-you-need-to-know/","disqusTitle":"Private Colleges Want More Power to Police Trespassers. Here's What You Need to Know","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/elina-lingappa/\">Elina Lingappa\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11915565/private-colleges-want-more-power-to-police-trespassers-heres-what-you-need-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Private colleges in California want more power to rein in trespassing on their campuses, particularly when people repeatedly enter to harass students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willful trespassing on the campuses of California’s K-12 schools and public universities is considered a misdemeanor, and can result in jail time. But private colleges can only hand out warning letters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director, Equal Rights Advocates","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The issue is at the center of a bill that is one chamber away from reaching Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Private colleges say that the current situation hampers their ability to protect students — but some students worry that the proposed changes could make campuses feel cut off from surrounding neighborhoods and lead to racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The no-trespassing letters are ineffective because there isn’t a clear consequence for violating them, say the bill’s supporters, which include policing associations and the 86-member Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the association has heard reports of people entering campuses to make racist comments toward Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Trespassers who sexually harass female students also are an issue, said Alex Graves, the association’s vice president for government relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the bill highlights a complicated dynamic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many private college campuses in California are open spaces, including the Claremont Colleges and Santa Clara University, which support the bill. Community members pass through often to walk their dogs or relax on the manicured lawns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open nature of campuses makes reining in trespassing “a very difficult line to walk,” said Jessica Ramey Stender, deputy legal director of Equal Rights Advocates, a gender-justice nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it shows the difficult position that universities are in, in trying to ensure that they keep their students safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what you should know about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB748\">Senate Bill 748\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which changes would the bill make?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill would rework a section of the state’s criminal code that right now applies only to public colleges or universities and public and private K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those schools, the law says that it’s a misdemeanor for a person to “willfully and knowingly” enter a campus after having been banned. A person can be barred for disrupting a campus or facility’s “orderly operation,” according to the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would expand the provision to include private colleges and universities. Punishment for a violation is either a fine of no more than $500 or imprisonment in county jail for no longer than six months, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Sen. Anthony Portantino, a San Fernando Valley Democrat, the bill passed the state Senate 34-0 in January and is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do private campuses currently handle trespassing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s use the University of San Diego as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university supports the bill. It has the kind of idyllic campus that the general public regularly visits: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiego.edu/about/fast-facts.php\">180 acres overlooking San Diego, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fairly common for the university’s police force to be summoned to disturbances involving people who have entered campus, said James Miyashiro, assistant vice president of safety at USD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, an unhoused man barricaded himself in a campus bathroom, and threatened to return once police told him to leave, said Miyashiro, who watched footage from an officer’s body camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altercations with students also occur. People come to campus to play pickup games and sometimes get in fights with students who have the space reserved, or make comments that offend students, who then report them to the police, Miyashiro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When campus police get such a report, they ask the person to leave campus. If they come back, officers give them a letter barring them from campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “that doesn’t have a lot of teeth behind it,” Miyashiro said. And city police are reluctant to respond to trespassing issues on campus, particularly during hours when the buildings are open, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyashiro contrasted the dynamic with his experience at two public universities where he worked previously: the University of California, Los Angeles and Riverside Community College District. There, campus police could tell a person causing a disturbance that if they returned within seven days, they could be arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:86c7c3bd-6880-3f3b-a2c2-8f5178884c18\">city police associations back the bill\u003c/a>, including the Riverside Sheriffs' Association and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equal Rights Advocates also decided to support the measure, Stender said, based on what it has heard from students who have been victims of sexual assault or harassment. Sometimes, the attacker will return to campus to continue harassing or even assault them again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consequence of a misdemeanor charge brings clarity, said John Ojeisekhoba, the president-elect of a campus-policing association that supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give an officer a significant level of deterrence. That will be the difference. Right now, there’s just no such thing, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could this bill lead to racial profiling?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several students said they are concerned about this outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alessia Milstein, who graduated this spring from Pitzer College, said there should be other options for how people get help instead of defaulting to calling the police. Milstein was involved in the Claremont Colleges’ Prison Abolition Collective, a club that educates students about prison and police abolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11915577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman who was involved in abolition activism at Pitzer College stands, looking seriously at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-800x539.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04-1536x1034.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/052622-Pitzer-College-RN-CJN-CM-04.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alessia Milstein graduated this spring from Pitzer College, in Claremont. She was involved in abolition activism on campus. \u003ccite>(Raquel Natalicchio/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to remember that everyone is subject to having racial biases — and relying on police to decide who belongs on campus is “allowing those to run freely,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just feel like it’s kind of the epitome, again, of why police don’t work,” Milstein said. “You’re trying to solve every conflict with a catchall that is rooted in colonialism and white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are “more negatives than positives” with the bill, said Tess Gibbs, a rising senior at Scripps College, who is also part of the collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, Gibbs said she worries the bill could make campus into a sort of “fortress,” cut off from the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students, which seems to be its intention,” Gibbs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A movement to reduce police presence on California campuses has grown over the last several years, following a nationwide reckoning over the scope of police power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the University of California and California State University, some students have \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2020/06/students-push-uc-to-abolish-police-departments/\">called for abolishing, or increasing oversight of, campus police departments\u003c/a>, particularly because of concerns over aggressive policing of protests and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2021/03/uc-cal-state-police-diversity-whiter-than-students/\">racial profiling\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And racism regularly leads to people of color being deemed suspicious. One such incident that garnered national attention: In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\">a white student at Yale University called campus police after seeing a Black student asleep in the dorm common room\u003c/a>. Several police officers responded to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure it’s applied in a way that makes sense,” Portantino said of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked via email about concerns that the bill could lead to racial profiling or harassment of unhoused people, he said that the measure isn’t meant to be used for anything other than “fostering prudent student and campus safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How could campus police avoid over-policing, if the bill becomes law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several campus safety officials interviewed said they intended to use the bill’s power just as needed, rather than overdo it. Of course, that’s easier said than done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ojeisekhoba, of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, acknowledged that mistakes can happen. Still, he said he has seen a shift in how campus police respond to reports of suspicious behavior. As an example, he pointed to the private university where he is chief of police, Biola University in La Mirada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of immediately sending an officer to the scene after getting a call about suspicious behavior, dispatchers are trained to ask more questions in the hopes of figuring out whether there is actually an issue. The approach is meant to “reduce potential mistakes or the appearance of racial profiling,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I just question how much this would actually significantly increase safety of students.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tess Gibbs, Scripps College student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Stan Skipworth, associate vice president of campus safety at the Claremont Colleges, also said in an email that jail time isn’t necessary in all instances of trespassing — just the most egregious cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of relying on police, students should learn to count on community members when problems arise, said Alaia Zaki, a rising senior at the University of San Francisco. Zaki is part of the university’s chapter of Alliance for Change, an organization that helps people transition from prison and reenter communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaki highlighted \u003ca href=\"https://batjc.wordpress.com/resources/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/\">pod-mapping\u003c/a> as potential inspiration. The approach has been championed by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, an Oakland-based group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pods are meant to be a way to deal with \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic\">small harms\u003c/a> by relying on a group of trusted friends or neighbors. For example, instead of calling the police, a person could reach out to their pod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have a relationship founded on community would be kind of a game-changer because you would have people that you know, and hopefully respect and trust, coming to deescalate your situations,” Zaki said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nElina Lingappa is a fellow with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/college-journalism-network/\">CalMatters College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage is supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11915565/private-colleges-want-more-power-to-police-trespassers-heres-what-you-need-to-know","authors":["byline_news_11915565"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_31166","news_18839","news_18085","news_20013","news_21892","news_116","news_6501","news_178"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11915590","label":"news_18481"},"news_11883845":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11883845","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11883845","score":null,"sort":[1628621046000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-former-employees-at-a-berkeley-bastion-for-literary-presses-ignited-a-reckoning","title":"How Former Employees at a Berkeley Bastion for Literary Presses Ignited a Reckoning","publishDate":1628621046,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When J. Worthen was hired as a warehouse assistant at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley in 2014, they hoped to work there for the rest of their career. The mission of Small Press Distribution, or SPD, is to make writing by underrepresented communities more accessible. Worthen loved having a role in helping to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2018, Worthen said it became impossible to ignore the divide between the nonprofit's mission and how they were being treated because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a trip to Tampa, Florida, for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference that year, Worthen was eating dinner with their boss, Brent Cunningham, and Abigail Beckel, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://rosemetalpress.com/\">Rose Metal Press\u003c/a>, one of SPD's publishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, according to Worthen and Beckel, Cunningham said Worthen was asexual, and went on to ask a series of intrusive questions. Worthen said at one point he asked whether they would still be asexual if they weren't so close to their sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really was in escape mode. I didn't know how to address it at the moment without jeopardizing my job,\" Worthen said. \"[Rose Metal Press] is one of SPD's top publishers. He had no problem creating an uncomfortable situation for both of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckel said she thought Cunningham's behavior was \"wildly inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Worthen published an \u003ca href=\"https://www.vidaweb.org/body-of-a-poem-neither-here-nor-there-asexual-and-agender-in-the-literary-world/\">essay\u003c/a> that described the experience. While Worthen did not name anyone in their piece, they still expected to lose their job, or for there to be some sort of reaction from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Cunningham \"liked\" the essay on Facebook and after that, Worthen said, they never heard from members of the SPD board or leadership about the incident until Cunningham apologized over two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt like I didn't exist. It just felt like the experience meant nothing to the people who played a part in it,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883911\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Worthen, who started as a warehouse assistant at Small Press Distribution in 2014, says they loved playing a role in helping to make literature accessible. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of J. Worthen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, who left SPD in June, said in a statement that he \"profoundly misread\" the dinner and a number of situations with Worthen. Worthen said Cunningham referred to them as \"my J.\" and commented on their cheap lunches and \"Midwestern work ethic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I deeply apologize for any and all comments I made that were insensitive, and regret them. I never intended to hurt but now understand the unintended impact of my words. I have worked on and will continue to work on rooting out as much unconscious bias as I can in the hopes of being a better ally to marginalized people going forward,\" Cunningham said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthen said the issue was not just Cunningham's behavior but the way the SPD board responded when employees came forward and denounced his behavior in posts \u003ca href=\"https://wearespd.medium.com/?p=21ce94bf25e0\">online\u003c/a>. In February 2021, Worthen says, they filed a harassment complaint when a different employee persistently misgendered them and sent them condescending messages. Cunningham was one of two people who determined whether that behavior violated SPD policies, emails shared with KQED show, even though a majority of SPD employees had previously penned an open letter that called for his termination or resignation. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='J. Worthen, a former employee at SPD']'I really felt like this could kill me, staying in a situation with no end in sight, having to deal with the person who harmed me, while the people who should have been holding him accountable were protecting him.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Bernheimer, the president of the SPD board of directors, did not comment on the work dinner or respond to questions related to the complaint about Cunningham's behavior or how the board responded. He also declined interview requests and declined to answer almost all questions sent to him with criticism or allegations about Cunningham or SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD did, however, hire a law firm, Oppenheimer Investigations Group, to conduct an independent assessment of the nonprofit earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The OIG assessment concluded that SPD needed a reboot of its management, workplace policies, and relationship between staff and leaders,\" Bernheimer wrote in a statement to KQED. \"The OIG report was completed the first week in March, and we announced [Cunningham’s] departure as [executive director] on March 8.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a series of questions sent to him last month, Bernheimer wrote in an email sent to KQED seemingly by mistake, \"For any response we provide, we should strongly consider aligning with what Brent [Cunningham] is telling her [KQED reporter Holly McDede].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-800x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-800x314.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-1020x401.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-160x63.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response.png 1360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not answer any specific questions after that, writing instead, \"No further comment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthen, who learned they had cancer in 2019, worried the stress of staying at SPD could affect their health. Soon after they filed the complaint, they decided to leave the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really felt like this could kill me, staying in a situation with no end in sight, having to deal with the person who harmed me, while the people who should have been holding him accountable were protecting him,\" they said. \"I needed to get away from that so that I can heal from cancer and have a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1020x582.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-160x91.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1536x876.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Press Distribution currently warehouses some 350,000 books. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Reckoning for Literary Spaces\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1969, Berkeley-based Small Press Distribution has distinguished itself as the place for indie publishers to get experimental, avant-garde works in the hands of booksellers and customers nationwide. The nonprofit has a staff of fewer than a dozen people and works with some 400 presses, and has distributed titles that have won prestigious awards, like Pulitzer in poetry winner \"Olio\" by Tyehimba Jess. On its website, SPD emphasizes this commitment: \"Everything we do is aimed at helping essential but underrepresented literary communities participate fully in the marketplace and in the culture at large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some former employees said that incidents like what Worthen experienced, and an overall lack of personal or professional boundaries, were part of a broader problem at SPD. They said management seemed to push the idea that employees were more like friends than co-workers. Workers said that contributed to a toxic environment where staff concerns were not taken seriously or addressed through formal mechanisms, and it felt impossible to hold people accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernheimer said in a public statement that human resources departments were not commonplace when SPD was founded in 1969, particularly in small nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it's inexcusable that we failed to grow with the times and that SPD employees suffered as a result,\" Bernheimer wrote. \"We believe a holistic HR approach, run by specialized experts, will preclude recurrences, as well as foster a healthy workplace with interactional and procedural justice for all.\" [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Jeffrey Lependorf, former executive director at SPD']'For many years, long before me, SPD was a small group of poets trying to get books out ... We were not HR professionals. We were artists running an arts organization. We were doing our best to learn and to institute HR processes. We, in many ways, did a good job, and failed a lot in our best efforts. I think that's fair to say.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-plight-of-the-overworked-nonprofit-employee/497081/\">reputation\u003c/a> for low pay, burnout and high turnover. Some former employees said they expected disorganization or poor treatment at SPD because those issues are common in arts nonprofits, bookstores and other creative industries. Former employees said the SPD board, which included poets and publishers, was absent or out of touch when it came to working conditions at SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said in a written statement that the working conditions and the culture at SPD were not meaningfully different from or worse than those at any under-resourced nonprofit. He said the primary obstacle to any change was always a lack of resources rather than a lack of will, and that there was also a lack of agreement or articulation among the staff about the real, practical changes they wanted to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For many years, long before me, SPD was a small group of poets trying to get books out,\" said Jeffrey Lependorf, who was the executive director at SPD until 2020. \"We were not HR professionals. We were artists running an arts organization. We were doing our best to learn and to institute HR processes. We, in many ways, did a good job, and failed a lot in our best efforts. I think that's fair to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernheimer said since allegations were first made online in December, the SPD board has invited staff to attend board meetings and created a staff-board liaison process to improve communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11884055 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay Banes, a former Small Press Distribution employee, also worked at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, where he organized a reading series. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Clay Banes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while some of the longstanding problems at SPD may be common to many organizations, SPD holds a unique position as the only nonprofit literary distributor in the country. Small literary presses rooted in social justice and committed to bringing underrepresented voices to readers have few other distribution options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's pretty much no other. Whoever has existed, SPD is the one left standing. Even as we speak, everything is getting consolidated in the commercial distributing world,\" Clay Banes, a former employee at SPD, said. \"So many writers, so many publishers, so many poets, for the most part, none of these people want to get into the fray of this. No one wants to harm SPD, including me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic caused workers all over the country to question not only their safety but also how they're valued on the job — including at nonprofits and bookstores. Current and former Black and trans booksellers at Pegasus Books in Berkeley and Oakland created an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CEK89VTpFOC/\">anti-racist bookstore initiative\u003c/a> to demand better treatment. Booksellers at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moesbooksunion?lang=en\">Moe's Books in Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bscworkers?lang=en\">Bookshop Santa Cruz\u003c/a> voted to form unions this year, a rare move for any independent bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of books line the second floor at Moe's Books in Berkeley on July 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think there still is a perception that somehow these professions are special or have cultural capital,\" said Amy Wilson, a poet, an organizer and a master's student at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. \"But what workers are saying is you can't eat [or] can't pay your rent with cultural capital.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Toxicity in the Workplace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of the former workers who spoke to KQED said they had tried to fix the culture and structure at SPD internally, but not enough seemed to change. The environment became increasingly hostile in 2019, they said, when employees were told SPD was in the midst of a financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SPD is making available books that don't make a lot of money,\" said Jeffrey Lependorf, then-executive director of SPD. \"And the book industry at that time was facing tough times. And we were a part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees said it seemed like workers who were vocal about changes they wanted to see at SPD were also under the most scrutiny during SPD's financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like SPD could fall apart at any moment, [so] we have to be hypervigilant and never change how we do anything,\" said E Conner, who worked at SPD during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-800x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-800x672.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1536x1291.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-2048x1721.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1920x1614.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E Conner worked at Small Press Distribution until late last year. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of E Conner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former employees said managers began an \"efficiency audit\" to identify redundancies. As part of that effort, staff said they were asked to describe in detail what they did during the day. But Conner said it felt like even when she explained how she spent her workday, the manager didn’t believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As I was explaining what I did, I was told, 'But you don't really do that, right?'\" Conner said. \"And I explained that 'I'm just trying to tell you what I do.' Everybody was terrified we were going to lose our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former employee at SPD, Nich Malone, said he was outspoken about some of the issues at SPD, like the lack of clear job descriptions or the need for professional boundaries. But he said his suggestions only seemed to make some of his bosses uncomfortable, and the efficiency audit felt like an attempt to wear him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally, like, sitting in a room for an hour, not doing work, so you could justify your job,\" Malone said. \"It would sort of break you down so that you work harder so that you'd keep your job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these audits were happening, Lependorf lived on the other side of the country — another issue that employees said they found frustrating as they, and their lower-paid co-workers, faced the threat of layoffs. \"He lived and worked in Hudson, New York, while Small Press Distribution is in Berkeley, California,” Conner said. \"The knowledge and the skill to navigate through this very chaotic organization was all on the lower-paid workers to do, and do well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lependorf said the remote position made sense for years, considering that many valuable ties in the publishing industry are in New York. But he said his distance from the nonprofit seemed less practical as the climate at the workplace became more toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were issues of misgendering, there were issues of gender bias, there were issues of crossing boundaries, and [it] became more difficult ... it was certainly difficult for me not being present,\" he said. \"I was in a position of being a little helpless to deal with some of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said management was working hard to make sure employees could keep their jobs, but he could also understand how the financial issues made staff feel threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were really, really trying to listen. We were out there trying to pull in pennies to keep everyone employed,\" he said. \"You don't want to scare your staff, but you also don't want to hide things from them. It's a tricky balance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-800x472.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-800x472.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-1020x601.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-160x94.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-1536x906.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poetry covers the walls of the break room at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lependorf left SPD last year, and Cunningham said Lependorf's departure was the solution to the financial challenges. (Lependorf said he was planning to leave within a year or two anyway.) Cunningham, who became executive director after Lependorf left, said he could not comment on personnel matters out of concern for privacy. Cunningham said of himself that he treated all employees fairly and equally, and that while in leadership at SPD, he did not witness any other SPD director treating any employee in a way he would call unfair, unequal or retaliatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then around the time of the nonprofit's financial issues, staff learned from management about errors related to payroll. SPD leadership said in a statement last year that a total of five employees had been underpaid, and that staff had also been given pay stubs that were not in compliance with the law; they did not show hourly wages or hours worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person was underpaid a total of more than $4,000 throughout most of 2019, documents shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SPD board of directors, Cunningham and SPD Finance Director Andrew Pai released a statement saying that as soon as the payroll errors came to their attention, leaders apologized to staff, informed all staff of the error and remedied the mistakes — including paying missing wages with interest to those affected. They said they also switched to a different payroll processing company that complies with current regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883934 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-800x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-800x760.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1020x969.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1536x1460.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-2048x1946.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1920x1824.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E Conner's desk at Small Press Distribution, where she worked until late 2020. She advocated for better working conditions while an employee there. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of E Conner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former employee Malone said that these financial issues and mismanagement contributed to the hostile environment at SPD, where employees felt they had to justify their positions, and eventually it became too much. Malone decided to leave last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just figured, if I could leave the organization, that means my friend who is also on the chopping block, at least ... they probably won't lose their job,\" he said. \"I couldn't still be part of something that I loved so much, watching it slowly die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 60% of employees who worked at SPD in September 2019 have since left the nonprofit. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Moves Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It took a Medium \u003ca href=\"https://damagedbookworker.medium.com/terrorized-by-spd-612014765e7c\">post\u003c/a> published last December by a former employee to force the conversation open about working conditions at SPD. Hundreds of writers, publishers and community members signed an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJKgNqaN_FZ7GWKiciKDFQQZgLZ1JI895b_Z3Apx5Ic/edit\">open letter calling for Cunningham to resign from his leadership position at SPD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're using a pseudonym — Marisela — to protect the identity of the former employee who wrote the post because of concern that being identified would put their safety or employment opportunities at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the post, Marisela described how management continued to ask them to perform intensive physical labor in the warehouse in spite of a reported physical disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wrote that Cunningham would regularly \"unload\" to them about his personal life. They said he would approach their desk in the morning and begin complaining about personal issues with his family — emotional labor that Marisela, as well as several other former employees, said made them uncomfortable, particularly from a boss. Marisela described feeling like a \"captive audience\" as he overshared details about his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisela was also the employee who was underpaid more than $4,000 in 2019, documents shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1.jpeg 1331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former employee at Small Press Distribution, who asked to be called Marisela, published a piece about working conditions at Small Press Distribution last December. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marisela and Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marisela said over a month before first learning they were underpaid, they had to borrow money from a church to pay rent. They said their mental and physical health continued to decline, and the stress was making it impossible to work there. They felt like they had no choice but to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Cunningham said he apologizes for and regrets \"any instance of sharing too much personal information with staff members.\" He also said he responded to all safety and employee health concerns as soon as they came to his attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after Marisela handed in their resignation, SPD offered them a $2,500 severance agreement. In order to receive the money, Marisela would also have to sign nondisclosure and nondisparagement clauses, requiring them to pay $500 for every instance they disparaged SPD or broke the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Marisela did not sign it, and thus did not receive any severance pay, they said it made them afraid to talk about their experience at SPD for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't have any other resources. I didn't expect them to do that. It did what they wanted it to do. I felt like disappearing was my only option,\" Marisela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD Board President Bernheimer said the nonprofit has \"rarely but occasionally offered severance to departing employees and, like the vast majority of organizations, used agreements that provided for confidentiality and mutual non-disparagement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, less than a month after Marisela quit, the pandemic hit. Marisela was not only unemployed but even more isolated. By December 2020, they decided to come forward publicly. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Marisela, a former worker at SPD']'I felt like I physically needed to speak the truth, or my body was going to cave in ... This whole thing has been an act of survival. I didn't feel like I had any other choice.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like I physically needed to speak the truth, or my body was going to cave in,\" Marisela said. \"This whole thing has been an act of survival. I didn't feel like I had any other choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That post launched a reckoning at SPD that previous, internal demands for change had not. Bernheimer said after the post was published, SPD added a board member with HR experience, and brought in a law firm to conduct an assessment of employee concerns and the nonprofit's culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm found Cunningham was insensitive around issues related to gender identity and ethnicity, according to a portion of the assessment shared with KQED and publicly. The SPD board said he stepped down as executive director in March after the report was complete, though he continued to work for SPD in other roles for months afterward. The SPD board has not released that assessment, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Boycott and Social Media Campaign\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But seeking accountability through social media has also been complicated and, at times, hostile. Since December, Marisela has been running Twitter and Instagram accounts aimed at keeping the pressure on SPD and and bringing attention to working conditions in the book industry. Then, in March, someone set up a Twitter account to mock them. Marisela said soon after that account was suspended, someone claiming to be a friend of Cunningham sent them an abusive and threatening email, which they shared with KQED, telling Marisela to \"move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxzrjhB6AR/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people who have advocated for change at SPD say they're doing so in spite of backlash from the literary community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a lot of people, it's not just a fear of losing their job. It's a fear of losing social access,\" said Conner, who left SPD last year. \"And I will say I've lost a lot of friends. A lot of friends. There's a lot bound up in why it was so hard for anybody to say anything publicly for so long. It's work, it's art, it's this whole community and really important things for people, their livelihood, and what they're trying to create.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the issues at SPD have been shared online, a few presses have been trying to find other ways to distribute their books. But that hasn't been an easy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think there's an awareness about how much the publishers have to lose, and the books they represent,\" said KMA Sullivan, founder and publisher at Portland, Oregon-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesyesbooks.com\">YesYes Books\u003c/a>, which describes itself online as a publisher of provocative collections of poetry, fiction and experimental art. \"Presses are just trying to survive. Does that mean we shouldn't speak out for justice? Of course not, we should.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/YesYesBooks/status/1393252835421085697\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Game Over Books, a Boston-based publishing company of emerging and marginalized writers, announced it was ending its ties with SPD last year. Founder Josh Savory said they are still searching for a distributor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What SPD does is [get] your books into bookstores, libraries, university bookstores. You can't just go to most stores and say, 'Please carry our books,'\" he said. \"And without distribution, I think that you're doing a disservice to your writers and your authors and their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also not clear what impact the social media callouts have had on the willingness of the SPD board to adopt changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tension all came to a head in June when members of a recently formed group of anti-capitalist writers and publishers called Poets Union weighed in. The group, which is not an actual union or tied to SPD, decided to boycott SPD. One SPD employee released a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzIF2s2IZ5EXzkqfYNdLkQKvNbjiexW2rUpWcxmJu98/edit\">statement \u003c/a>anonymously supporting the boycott and saying that she had no faith in the SPD board and felt isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to staff, and later \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I57aq8arehBdBjh4AVn2kYw28WKSytmw/view\">shared online\u003c/a>, the interim executive director of SPD Cindy Myers wrote in response: \"Torpedoing your employer on social media is truly not acceptable, in any organization. What is really needed is a statement from staff that conveys confidence that SPD is solving its problems collaboratively and is not a hostile workplace. I can't make that statement for you - and you don't have to make that statement at all, it's really up to you. But I am telling you, that is what is called for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myers declined interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the email was sent, SPD employees released a \u003ca href=\"https://myemail.constantcontact.com/SPD-Staff-Response-to-Poetry-Workers-Union-Boycott.html?soid=1103707940910&aid=P6F7nYlvh4o\">statement\u003c/a> that said all but one worker opposed the boycott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are SPD workers writing to express our dismay at the recent calls to action made in our name. At this time, the Poets Union boycott does not align with our wishes or needs as workers. We are a fragile, overworked crew and fear coming forward publicly would expose us to online harassment, which is why we are writing to you anonymously,\" the statement reads. It was signed \"7 of 8 Current SPD Workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 717px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11883940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen.jpg 717w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen-160x131.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Worthen during a reading. Worthen and other former workers at Small Press Distribution want to see working conditions improve. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of J. Worthen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Still Hoping for a Transformation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>SPD staff members recently completed mediation, a process where employees agree to changes in the workplace with the help of a third party. In an email sent to the small press community, Myers said details of that mediation are confidential. Board President Bernheimer did not comment when asked what the next steps are for improving practices at SPD now that mediation has ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means many in the literary world and former employees will have to continue to wait and see what SPD will look like over the next few months from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month into the pandemic lockdowns, Worthen shared a fundraiser for SPD online. In that post, they asked people wanting to help with expenses related to their cancer treatment to instead donate to SPD. They said they could not imagine a literary world without it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year since then, Worthen said it’s hurtful that people now claim they're a threat to the nonprofit's future. They said former employees have the right to speak about harm experienced in the literary community, and about improving the situation at SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Worthen and Malone say they still care about the future of SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love the closure of, like, 'Cool, close this book. And SPD is going to be OK,\" Malone said. \"Instead of being like, 'Cool, close this book, and everything's on fire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclaimer: Holly J. McDede volunteered at Small Press Distribution in 2013.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many consider Small Press Distribution, or SPD, vital to the nation's ecosystem of independent publications. But last December, an online post by a former employee forced a conversation about how the mission-based nonprofit treats its workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1631124880,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":88,"wordCount":4431},"headData":{"title":"How Former Employees at a Berkeley Bastion for Literary Presses Ignited a Reckoning | KQED","description":"Many consider Small Press Distribution, or SPD, vital to the nation's ecosystem of independent publications. But last December, an online post by a former employee forced a conversation about how the mission-based nonprofit treats its workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11883845 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11883845","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/10/how-former-employees-at-a-berkeley-bastion-for-literary-presses-ignited-a-reckoning/","disqusTitle":"How Former Employees at a Berkeley Bastion for Literary Presses Ignited a Reckoning","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/bdeb628a-8348-406a-ad6e-ad9d011fa91c/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11883845/how-former-employees-at-a-berkeley-bastion-for-literary-presses-ignited-a-reckoning","audioDuration":343000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When J. Worthen was hired as a warehouse assistant at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley in 2014, they hoped to work there for the rest of their career. The mission of Small Press Distribution, or SPD, is to make writing by underrepresented communities more accessible. Worthen loved having a role in helping to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2018, Worthen said it became impossible to ignore the divide between the nonprofit's mission and how they were being treated because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a trip to Tampa, Florida, for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference that year, Worthen was eating dinner with their boss, Brent Cunningham, and Abigail Beckel, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://rosemetalpress.com/\">Rose Metal Press\u003c/a>, one of SPD's publishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of nowhere, according to Worthen and Beckel, Cunningham said Worthen was asexual, and went on to ask a series of intrusive questions. Worthen said at one point he asked whether they would still be asexual if they weren't so close to their sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really was in escape mode. I didn't know how to address it at the moment without jeopardizing my job,\" Worthen said. \"[Rose Metal Press] is one of SPD's top publishers. He had no problem creating an uncomfortable situation for both of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckel said she thought Cunningham's behavior was \"wildly inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, Worthen published an \u003ca href=\"https://www.vidaweb.org/body-of-a-poem-neither-here-nor-there-asexual-and-agender-in-the-literary-world/\">essay\u003c/a> that described the experience. While Worthen did not name anyone in their piece, they still expected to lose their job, or for there to be some sort of reaction from the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Cunningham \"liked\" the essay on Facebook and after that, Worthen said, they never heard from members of the SPD board or leadership about the incident until Cunningham apologized over two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt like I didn't exist. It just felt like the experience meant nothing to the people who played a part in it,\" they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883911\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gQ-pw7hXa.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Worthen, who started as a warehouse assistant at Small Press Distribution in 2014, says they loved playing a role in helping to make literature accessible. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of J. Worthen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, who left SPD in June, said in a statement that he \"profoundly misread\" the dinner and a number of situations with Worthen. Worthen said Cunningham referred to them as \"my J.\" and commented on their cheap lunches and \"Midwestern work ethic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I deeply apologize for any and all comments I made that were insensitive, and regret them. I never intended to hurt but now understand the unintended impact of my words. I have worked on and will continue to work on rooting out as much unconscious bias as I can in the hopes of being a better ally to marginalized people going forward,\" Cunningham said in the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthen said the issue was not just Cunningham's behavior but the way the SPD board responded when employees came forward and denounced his behavior in posts \u003ca href=\"https://wearespd.medium.com/?p=21ce94bf25e0\">online\u003c/a>. In February 2021, Worthen says, they filed a harassment complaint when a different employee persistently misgendered them and sent them condescending messages. Cunningham was one of two people who determined whether that behavior violated SPD policies, emails shared with KQED show, even though a majority of SPD employees had previously penned an open letter that called for his termination or resignation. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I really felt like this could kill me, staying in a situation with no end in sight, having to deal with the person who harmed me, while the people who should have been holding him accountable were protecting him.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"J. Worthen, a former employee at SPD","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Bernheimer, the president of the SPD board of directors, did not comment on the work dinner or respond to questions related to the complaint about Cunningham's behavior or how the board responded. He also declined interview requests and declined to answer almost all questions sent to him with criticism or allegations about Cunningham or SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD did, however, hire a law firm, Oppenheimer Investigations Group, to conduct an independent assessment of the nonprofit earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The OIG assessment concluded that SPD needed a reboot of its management, workplace policies, and relationship between staff and leaders,\" Bernheimer wrote in a statement to KQED. \"The OIG report was completed the first week in March, and we announced [Cunningham’s] departure as [executive director] on March 8.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to a series of questions sent to him last month, Bernheimer wrote in an email sent to KQED seemingly by mistake, \"For any response we provide, we should strongly consider aligning with what Brent [Cunningham] is telling her [KQED reporter Holly McDede].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-800x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-800x314.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-1020x401.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response-160x63.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/KQED-Response.png 1360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not answer any specific questions after that, writing instead, \"No further comment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthen, who learned they had cancer in 2019, worried the stress of staying at SPD could affect their health. Soon after they filed the complaint, they decided to leave the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I really felt like this could kill me, staying in a situation with no end in sight, having to deal with the person who harmed me, while the people who should have been holding him accountable were protecting him,\" they said. \"I needed to get away from that so that I can heal from cancer and have a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884059\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884059\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-800x456.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1020x582.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-160x91.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better-1536x876.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Warehouse-Overview-Better.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Press Distribution currently warehouses some 350,000 books. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Reckoning for Literary Spaces\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1969, Berkeley-based Small Press Distribution has distinguished itself as the place for indie publishers to get experimental, avant-garde works in the hands of booksellers and customers nationwide. The nonprofit has a staff of fewer than a dozen people and works with some 400 presses, and has distributed titles that have won prestigious awards, like Pulitzer in poetry winner \"Olio\" by Tyehimba Jess. On its website, SPD emphasizes this commitment: \"Everything we do is aimed at helping essential but underrepresented literary communities participate fully in the marketplace and in the culture at large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some former employees said that incidents like what Worthen experienced, and an overall lack of personal or professional boundaries, were part of a broader problem at SPD. They said management seemed to push the idea that employees were more like friends than co-workers. Workers said that contributed to a toxic environment where staff concerns were not taken seriously or addressed through formal mechanisms, and it felt impossible to hold people accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernheimer said in a public statement that human resources departments were not commonplace when SPD was founded in 1969, particularly in small nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it's inexcusable that we failed to grow with the times and that SPD employees suffered as a result,\" Bernheimer wrote. \"We believe a holistic HR approach, run by specialized experts, will preclude recurrences, as well as foster a healthy workplace with interactional and procedural justice for all.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For many years, long before me, SPD was a small group of poets trying to get books out ... We were not HR professionals. We were artists running an arts organization. We were doing our best to learn and to institute HR processes. We, in many ways, did a good job, and failed a lot in our best efforts. I think that's fair to say.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jeffrey Lependorf, former executive director at SPD","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-plight-of-the-overworked-nonprofit-employee/497081/\">reputation\u003c/a> for low pay, burnout and high turnover. Some former employees said they expected disorganization or poor treatment at SPD because those issues are common in arts nonprofits, bookstores and other creative industries. Former employees said the SPD board, which included poets and publishers, was absent or out of touch when it came to working conditions at SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham said in a written statement that the working conditions and the culture at SPD were not meaningfully different from or worse than those at any under-resourced nonprofit. He said the primary obstacle to any change was always a lack of resources rather than a lack of will, and that there was also a lack of agreement or articulation among the staff about the real, practical changes they wanted to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For many years, long before me, SPD was a small group of poets trying to get books out,\" said Jeffrey Lependorf, who was the executive director at SPD until 2020. \"We were not HR professionals. We were artists running an arts organization. We were doing our best to learn and to institute HR processes. We, in many ways, did a good job, and failed a lot in our best efforts. I think that's fair to say.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernheimer said since allegations were first made online in December, the SPD board has invited staff to attend board meetings and created a staff-board liaison process to improve communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884055\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11884055 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-800x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-800x596.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-1020x760.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/Clay-Banes.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clay Banes, a former Small Press Distribution employee, also worked at Pegasus Books in Berkeley, where he organized a reading series. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Clay Banes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But while some of the longstanding problems at SPD may be common to many organizations, SPD holds a unique position as the only nonprofit literary distributor in the country. Small literary presses rooted in social justice and committed to bringing underrepresented voices to readers have few other distribution options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's pretty much no other. Whoever has existed, SPD is the one left standing. Even as we speak, everything is getting consolidated in the commercial distributing world,\" Clay Banes, a former employee at SPD, said. \"So many writers, so many publishers, so many poets, for the most part, none of these people want to get into the fray of this. No one wants to harm SPD, including me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pandemic caused workers all over the country to question not only their safety but also how they're valued on the job — including at nonprofits and bookstores. Current and former Black and trans booksellers at Pegasus Books in Berkeley and Oakland created an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CEK89VTpFOC/\">anti-racist bookstore initiative\u003c/a> to demand better treatment. Booksellers at \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moesbooksunion?lang=en\">Moe's Books in Berkeley\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bscworkers?lang=en\">Bookshop Santa Cruz\u003c/a> voted to form unions this year, a rare move for any independent bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/RS50297_014_Berkeley_SmallPressStory_07192021-qut-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of books line the second floor at Moe's Books in Berkeley on July 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I think there still is a perception that somehow these professions are special or have cultural capital,\" said Amy Wilson, a poet, an organizer and a master's student at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. \"But what workers are saying is you can't eat [or] can't pay your rent with cultural capital.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Toxicity in the Workplace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Many of the former workers who spoke to KQED said they had tried to fix the culture and structure at SPD internally, but not enough seemed to change. The environment became increasingly hostile in 2019, they said, when employees were told SPD was in the midst of a financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SPD is making available books that don't make a lot of money,\" said Jeffrey Lependorf, then-executive director of SPD. \"And the book industry at that time was facing tough times. And we were a part of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees said it seemed like workers who were vocal about changes they wanted to see at SPD were also under the most scrutiny during SPD's financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like SPD could fall apart at any moment, [so] we have to be hypervigilant and never change how we do anything,\" said E Conner, who worked at SPD during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883932\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-800x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-800x672.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1020x857.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-160x134.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1536x1291.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-2048x1721.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-1920x1614.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E Conner worked at Small Press Distribution until late last year. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of E Conner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former employees said managers began an \"efficiency audit\" to identify redundancies. As part of that effort, staff said they were asked to describe in detail what they did during the day. But Conner said it felt like even when she explained how she spent her workday, the manager didn’t believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As I was explaining what I did, I was told, 'But you don't really do that, right?'\" Conner said. \"And I explained that 'I'm just trying to tell you what I do.' Everybody was terrified we were going to lose our jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another former employee at SPD, Nich Malone, said he was outspoken about some of the issues at SPD, like the lack of clear job descriptions or the need for professional boundaries. But he said his suggestions only seemed to make some of his bosses uncomfortable, and the efficiency audit felt like an attempt to wear him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was literally, like, sitting in a room for an hour, not doing work, so you could justify your job,\" Malone said. \"It would sort of break you down so that you work harder so that you'd keep your job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these audits were happening, Lependorf lived on the other side of the country — another issue that employees said they found frustrating as they, and their lower-paid co-workers, faced the threat of layoffs. \"He lived and worked in Hudson, New York, while Small Press Distribution is in Berkeley, California,” Conner said. \"The knowledge and the skill to navigate through this very chaotic organization was all on the lower-paid workers to do, and do well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lependorf said the remote position made sense for years, considering that many valuable ties in the publishing industry are in New York. But he said his distance from the nonprofit seemed less practical as the climate at the workplace became more toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were issues of misgendering, there were issues of gender bias, there were issues of crossing boundaries, and [it] became more difficult ... it was certainly difficult for me not being present,\" he said. \"I was in a position of being a little helpless to deal with some of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said management was working hard to make sure employees could keep their jobs, but he could also understand how the financial issues made staff feel threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were really, really trying to listen. We were out there trying to pull in pennies to keep everyone employed,\" he said. \"You don't want to scare your staff, but you also don't want to hide things from them. It's a tricky balance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-800x472.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-800x472.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-1020x601.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-160x94.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall-1536x906.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/SPD-Kitchen-wall.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poetry covers the walls of the break room at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Sam Lefebvre)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lependorf left SPD last year, and Cunningham said Lependorf's departure was the solution to the financial challenges. (Lependorf said he was planning to leave within a year or two anyway.) Cunningham, who became executive director after Lependorf left, said he could not comment on personnel matters out of concern for privacy. Cunningham said of himself that he treated all employees fairly and equally, and that while in leadership at SPD, he did not witness any other SPD director treating any employee in a way he would call unfair, unequal or retaliatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then around the time of the nonprofit's financial issues, staff learned from management about errors related to payroll. SPD leadership said in a statement last year that a total of five employees had been underpaid, and that staff had also been given pay stubs that were not in compliance with the law; they did not show hourly wages or hours worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person was underpaid a total of more than $4,000 throughout most of 2019, documents shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SPD board of directors, Cunningham and SPD Finance Director Andrew Pai released a statement saying that as soon as the payroll errors came to their attention, leaders apologized to staff, informed all staff of the error and remedied the mistakes — including paying missing wages with interest to those affected. They said they also switched to a different payroll processing company that complies with current regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883934\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883934 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-800x760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-800x760.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1020x969.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1536x1460.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-2048x1946.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/E-Conner-Desk-1920x1824.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E Conner's desk at Small Press Distribution, where she worked until late 2020. She advocated for better working conditions while an employee there. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of E Conner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Former employee Malone said that these financial issues and mismanagement contributed to the hostile environment at SPD, where employees felt they had to justify their positions, and eventually it became too much. Malone decided to leave last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just figured, if I could leave the organization, that means my friend who is also on the chopping block, at least ... they probably won't lose their job,\" he said. \"I couldn't still be part of something that I loved so much, watching it slowly die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 60% of employees who worked at SPD in September 2019 have since left the nonprofit. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Moves Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It took a Medium \u003ca href=\"https://damagedbookworker.medium.com/terrorized-by-spd-612014765e7c\">post\u003c/a> published last December by a former employee to force the conversation open about working conditions at SPD. Hundreds of writers, publishers and community members signed an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJKgNqaN_FZ7GWKiciKDFQQZgLZ1JI895b_Z3Apx5Ic/edit\">open letter calling for Cunningham to resign from his leadership position at SPD. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're using a pseudonym — Marisela — to protect the identity of the former employee who wrote the post because of concern that being identified would put their safety or employment opportunities at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the post, Marisela described how management continued to ask them to perform intensive physical labor in the warehouse in spite of a reported physical disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wrote that Cunningham would regularly \"unload\" to them about his personal life. They said he would approach their desk in the morning and begin complaining about personal issues with his family — emotional labor that Marisela, as well as several other former employees, said made them uncomfortable, particularly from a boss. Marisela described feeling like a \"captive audience\" as he overshared details about his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marisela was also the employee who was underpaid more than $4,000 in 2019, documents shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883938\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883938\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/img_d1d3773d8182-1_edit-2-1.jpeg 1331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former employee at Small Press Distribution, who asked to be called Marisela, published a piece about working conditions at Small Press Distribution last December. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Marisela and Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marisela said over a month before first learning they were underpaid, they had to borrow money from a church to pay rent. They said their mental and physical health continued to decline, and the stress was making it impossible to work there. They felt like they had no choice but to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Cunningham said he apologizes for and regrets \"any instance of sharing too much personal information with staff members.\" He also said he responded to all safety and employee health concerns as soon as they came to his attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days after Marisela handed in their resignation, SPD offered them a $2,500 severance agreement. In order to receive the money, Marisela would also have to sign nondisclosure and nondisparagement clauses, requiring them to pay $500 for every instance they disparaged SPD or broke the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Marisela did not sign it, and thus did not receive any severance pay, they said it made them afraid to talk about their experience at SPD for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't have any other resources. I didn't expect them to do that. It did what they wanted it to do. I felt like disappearing was my only option,\" Marisela said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SPD Board President Bernheimer said the nonprofit has \"rarely but occasionally offered severance to departing employees and, like the vast majority of organizations, used agreements that provided for confidentiality and mutual non-disparagement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, less than a month after Marisela quit, the pandemic hit. Marisela was not only unemployed but even more isolated. By December 2020, they decided to come forward publicly. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I felt like I physically needed to speak the truth, or my body was going to cave in ... This whole thing has been an act of survival. I didn't feel like I had any other choice.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Marisela, a former worker at SPD","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like I physically needed to speak the truth, or my body was going to cave in,\" Marisela said. \"This whole thing has been an act of survival. I didn't feel like I had any other choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That post launched a reckoning at SPD that previous, internal demands for change had not. Bernheimer said after the post was published, SPD added a board member with HR experience, and brought in a law firm to conduct an assessment of employee concerns and the nonprofit's culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law firm found Cunningham was insensitive around issues related to gender identity and ethnicity, according to a portion of the assessment shared with KQED and publicly. The SPD board said he stepped down as executive director in March after the report was complete, though he continued to work for SPD in other roles for months afterward. The SPD board has not released that assessment, citing privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Boycott and Social Media Campaign\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But seeking accountability through social media has also been complicated and, at times, hostile. Since December, Marisela has been running Twitter and Instagram accounts aimed at keeping the pressure on SPD and and bringing attention to working conditions in the book industry. Then, in March, someone set up a Twitter account to mock them. Marisela said soon after that account was suspended, someone claiming to be a friend of Cunningham sent them an abusive and threatening email, which they shared with KQED, telling Marisela to \"move on.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CMxzrjhB6AR"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many of the people who have advocated for change at SPD say they're doing so in spite of backlash from the literary community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a lot of people, it's not just a fear of losing their job. It's a fear of losing social access,\" said Conner, who left SPD last year. \"And I will say I've lost a lot of friends. A lot of friends. There's a lot bound up in why it was so hard for anybody to say anything publicly for so long. It's work, it's art, it's this whole community and really important things for people, their livelihood, and what they're trying to create.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the issues at SPD have been shared online, a few presses have been trying to find other ways to distribute their books. But that hasn't been an easy process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think there's an awareness about how much the publishers have to lose, and the books they represent,\" said KMA Sullivan, founder and publisher at Portland, Oregon-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.yesyesbooks.com\">YesYes Books\u003c/a>, which describes itself online as a publisher of provocative collections of poetry, fiction and experimental art. \"Presses are just trying to survive. Does that mean we shouldn't speak out for justice? Of course not, we should.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1393252835421085697"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Game Over Books, a Boston-based publishing company of emerging and marginalized writers, announced it was ending its ties with SPD last year. Founder Josh Savory said they are still searching for a distributor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What SPD does is [get] your books into bookstores, libraries, university bookstores. You can't just go to most stores and say, 'Please carry our books,'\" he said. \"And without distribution, I think that you're doing a disservice to your writers and your authors and their work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also not clear what impact the social media callouts have had on the willingness of the SPD board to adopt changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tension all came to a head in June when members of a recently formed group of anti-capitalist writers and publishers called Poets Union weighed in. The group, which is not an actual union or tied to SPD, decided to boycott SPD. One SPD employee released a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzIF2s2IZ5EXzkqfYNdLkQKvNbjiexW2rUpWcxmJu98/edit\">statement \u003c/a>anonymously supporting the boycott and saying that she had no faith in the SPD board and felt isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email sent to staff, and later \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I57aq8arehBdBjh4AVn2kYw28WKSytmw/view\">shared online\u003c/a>, the interim executive director of SPD Cindy Myers wrote in response: \"Torpedoing your employer on social media is truly not acceptable, in any organization. What is really needed is a statement from staff that conveys confidence that SPD is solving its problems collaboratively and is not a hostile workplace. I can't make that statement for you - and you don't have to make that statement at all, it's really up to you. But I am telling you, that is what is called for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myers declined interview requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the email was sent, SPD employees released a \u003ca href=\"https://myemail.constantcontact.com/SPD-Staff-Response-to-Poetry-Workers-Union-Boycott.html?soid=1103707940910&aid=P6F7nYlvh4o\">statement\u003c/a> that said all but one worker opposed the boycott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are SPD workers writing to express our dismay at the recent calls to action made in our name. At this time, the Poets Union boycott does not align with our wishes or needs as workers. We are a fragile, overworked crew and fear coming forward publicly would expose us to online harassment, which is why we are writing to you anonymously,\" the statement reads. It was signed \"7 of 8 Current SPD Workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883940\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 717px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11883940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen.jpg 717w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2031/08/J-Worthen-160x131.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Worthen during a reading. Worthen and other former workers at Small Press Distribution want to see working conditions improve. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of J. Worthen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Still Hoping for a Transformation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>SPD staff members recently completed mediation, a process where employees agree to changes in the workplace with the help of a third party. In an email sent to the small press community, Myers said details of that mediation are confidential. Board President Bernheimer did not comment when asked what the next steps are for improving practices at SPD now that mediation has ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means many in the literary world and former employees will have to continue to wait and see what SPD will look like over the next few months from the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month into the pandemic lockdowns, Worthen shared a fundraiser for SPD online. In that post, they asked people wanting to help with expenses related to their cancer treatment to instead donate to SPD. They said they could not imagine a literary world without it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a year since then, Worthen said it’s hurtful that people now claim they're a threat to the nonprofit's future. They said former employees have the right to speak about harm experienced in the literary community, and about improving the situation at SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Worthen and Malone say they still care about the future of SPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would love the closure of, like, 'Cool, close this book. And SPD is going to be OK,\" Malone said. \"Instead of being like, 'Cool, close this book, and everything's on fire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclaimer: Holly J. 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Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7e6192f8c06a4b36acdcc705a76b2fdb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Texas outlawed\u003c/a> sending unwanted nude photos to people through dating apps or other digital means, making it a Class C misdemeanor with a fine of up to $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Chang, who has since been elected to the state Senate, wants to make sending unsolicited lewd photos illegal in California. The senator announced Thursday that she was partnering with the dating app Bumble to introduce legislation in January when state lawmakers return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say 95% of the women I have talked to have experienced something like this,” said Chang, a Republican whose district includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. “We have to send a message that this culture of online harassment must go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote citation=\"Whitney Wolfe, Bumble CEO\"]‘Sending somebody a photo of yourself in an indecent manner in an unsolicited fashion is harassment, plain and simple.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey by the Pew Research Center in 2017 found 21% of women ages 18 to 29 have reported being sexually harassed online compared to 9% of men in that same age group. About 53% of those women said they had been sent unwanted explicit photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most states, California outlaws “revenge porn.” But that law applies to when someone posts a nude photo online of someone else with the intent “to cause emotional distress.” California also outlaws stalking using electronic devices such as cellphones, but the law does not specifically address unwanted nude or lewd photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring online dating apps to post safety tips, including ways to report concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd worked to get the Texas law passed earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending somebody a photo of yourself in an indecent manner in an unsolicited fashion is harassment, plain and simple,” Herd said. “It’s a gateway to more extreme forms of harassment and abuse and it should not be taken lightly, and it deserves consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag= \"sexting\" label=\"Related Content\"]Bumble says it has 80 million users worldwide. It is like other dating apps, but it only allows women to initiate conversations with potential partners. The company says this eliminates most unwanted, aggressive behavior from men toward women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Herd acknowledged unwanted lewd photos still happen, but said it is not limited to Bumble and is an issue across the digital landscape. She noted it’s also a problem for women whose cellphone settings allow for unsolicited messages from others nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Bumble was one of several dating apps to begin using artificial intelligence to detect nude photos. The app will blur the images and give the recipient a chance to view it or delete it. Users can also report the person who sent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting the law passed in Texas, Herd said she wanted to bring it to California “to show that this is a nonpartisan issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a human issue,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State Sen. Ling Ling Chang plans to propose a law in January that would make sending unwanted lewd photos a crime punishable by a fine.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690401818,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":575},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmaker to Propose Ban on Sending Unwanted Nude Photos | KQED","description":"State Sen. Ling Ling Chang plans to propose a law in January that would make sending unwanted lewd photos a crime punishable by a fine.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr>The Associated Press","path":"/news/11787969/california-lawmaker-to-propose-ban-on-sending-unwanted-nude-photos","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When she was first elected to the California Assembly, Ling Ling Chang publicly posted her cellphone number to get feedback from her constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It worked, but it came with a dark side effect: unwanted nude photos from strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exposing yourself on the street is a crime, but the law is less clear when it happens in the digital realm. Earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/7e6192f8c06a4b36acdcc705a76b2fdb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Texas outlawed\u003c/a> sending unwanted nude photos to people through dating apps or other digital means, making it a Class C misdemeanor with a fine of up to $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Chang, who has since been elected to the state Senate, wants to make sending unsolicited lewd photos illegal in California. The senator announced Thursday that she was partnering with the dating app Bumble to introduce legislation in January when state lawmakers return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say 95% of the women I have talked to have experienced something like this,” said Chang, a Republican whose district includes portions of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties. “We have to send a message that this culture of online harassment must go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Sending somebody a photo of yourself in an indecent manner in an unsolicited fashion is harassment, plain and simple.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"citation":"Whitney Wolfe, Bumble CEO","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey by the Pew Research Center in 2017 found 21% of women ages 18 to 29 have reported being sexually harassed online compared to 9% of men in that same age group. About 53% of those women said they had been sent unwanted explicit photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most states, California outlaws “revenge porn.” But that law applies to when someone posts a nude photo online of someone else with the intent “to cause emotional distress.” California also outlaws stalking using electronic devices such as cellphones, but the law does not specifically address unwanted nude or lewd photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law requiring online dating apps to post safety tips, including ways to report concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd worked to get the Texas law passed earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending somebody a photo of yourself in an indecent manner in an unsolicited fashion is harassment, plain and simple,” Herd said. “It’s a gateway to more extreme forms of harassment and abuse and it should not be taken lightly, and it deserves consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"sexting","label":"Related Content "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bumble says it has 80 million users worldwide. It is like other dating apps, but it only allows women to initiate conversations with potential partners. The company says this eliminates most unwanted, aggressive behavior from men toward women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Herd acknowledged unwanted lewd photos still happen, but said it is not limited to Bumble and is an issue across the digital landscape. She noted it’s also a problem for women whose cellphone settings allow for unsolicited messages from others nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Bumble was one of several dating apps to begin using artificial intelligence to detect nude photos. The app will blur the images and give the recipient a chance to view it or delete it. Users can also report the person who sent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting the law passed in Texas, Herd said she wanted to bring it to California “to show that this is a nonpartisan issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a human issue,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11787969/california-lawmaker-to-propose-ban-on-sending-unwanted-nude-photos","authors":["byline_news_11787969"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27051","news_21892","news_5568","news_24650"],"featImg":"news_11788011","label":"news_72"},"news_11778501":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11778501","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11778501","score":null,"sort":[1570481416000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"supporting-muslim-teens-in-face-of-islamophobia-in-their-own-schools","title":"Supporting Muslim Teens in Face of Islamophobia — in Their Own Schools","publishDate":1570481416,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Dream | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>“This girl told me I was going to hell because I’m Muslim,” said high school senior Sara Shohoud about her first incident of Islamophobia. She was in first grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to counter it. I was so young,” the 18-year old said. “And now, I just keep quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sara Shohoud, high school senior']'This girl told me I was going to hell because I’m Muslim.'[/pullquote]The Sunnyvale resident said she regrets staying silent and burying her frustration more recently, as classmates made offensive jokes about Muslims or equated them with being “terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been in those situations, and I kind of wish I could relive them because I didn't handle it the best,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shohoud decided to enroll in a program to help Muslim youths handle harassment, inform peers about their faith and, in the process, create a more positive school environment. Since the Youth Speakers Training program launched three years ago, the nonprofit Islamic Networks Group now offers it in California and seven other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Shohoud, 17, presents a sketch about Muslim identity and culture during the ING Youth Speakers program in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Shohoud, 18, presents a sketch about Muslim identity and culture during the Islamic Networks Group Youth Speakers training in San Jose on Sept. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As anti-Muslim sentiment has grown in the U.S., data show Muslim kids experience bullying and harassment at a higher rate than other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sfba/publications/2017-bullying-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a> 53% of Muslim school-aged children in California said they have been “made fun of, verbally insulted or abused.” Nationally, 42% of Muslim children reported being bullied, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/American-Muslim-Poll-2017-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to\u003c/a> the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. By comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/2017/ss6708.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> found\u003c/a> 19% of all high school students say they have been bullied at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent training session at the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, Shohoud and about two dozen teens sat in folding chairs, sometimes fidgeting with plastic water bottles, as they opened up about bearing the brunt of “9/11 jokes” or being insulted for their religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the kids who were becoming freshmen (this year) at this school were throwing the terms Muslim and terrorist,” Zayn Zaafran, 12, told the group, adding that he didn’t want to disclose he was Muslim. “I just backed off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Saman Ali, a senior at Monte Vista High School']'I wanted to show kids that Muslims are just like anybody else.'[/pullquote]Schools are reflecting a larger dynamic in America, where incidents of bias and violence against Muslims have increased in recent years, said Dr. Nadia Ansary, an associate professor at Rider University in New Jersey who studies discrimination and bullying of Muslim youth. She points to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies such as the travel ban as contributing to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidents of bias and violence against Muslims in the U.S. spiked in 2017, with 2,599 reports of violence, harassment and discrimination, according to\u003ca href=\"http://www.islamophobia.org/images/2019/Bias_Brief/BB_2_-_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a study\u003c/a> by CAIR, which has been tracking the trend since 2014. About one-third of the incidents reported, including employment discrimination and denial of service, were in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in schools is a mirror image of what's happening in society because schools are a part of our community,” said Ansary, adding that bullying puts children at greater risk for anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Islamic Networks Group training in San Jose, students reviewed their rights at school and brainstormed how to respond to potentially thorny scenarios, such as what a Muslim student should do when jokingly asked, “Hey are you planning to bomb the school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students suggested doing nothing or telling an adult at the school. But Shohoud offered a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A really interesting response would be to ask, ‘What makes you say that?’ So they kind of have to admit that they are being Islamophobic, and nobody really wants to do that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishaq Pathan, the group's Bay Area director who leads the training, and the other students nodded in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, turn it back,” said Pathan, 24. “That’s a great response, because it puts the ball in their court and they have to come to terms with whatever they are saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11778606 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-1200x812.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Aridin and Wajdi Barghouti participate at an ING training in San Jose on Sept. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In general, school districts have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-are-school-districts-legally-responsible-for-bullying/538619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal obligation\u003c/a> to address bullying and protect students. California and other states have taken measures to curb the intensive and often repetitive form of harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California Department of Education developed anti-bullying \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/se/documents/bullymodule1.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines\u003c/a> that schools must make available to teachers and other staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those steps are not enough to fully tackle the magnitude of the problem, said Ansary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a right to be educated in an environment where they're not abused. Everybody has a right to practice their faith traditions,” she said. “The data suggest that that's not where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Dr. Nadia Ansary, an associate professor at Rider University in New Jersey']'What happens in schools is a mirror image of what's happening in society because schools are a part of our community.'[/pullquote]If students intervene to confront bullies, start a conversation to counter negative stereotypes, or nip hurtful language or jokes in the bud, that helps create a better environment for everyone at school, Pathan told the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this works if we just turn around and make fun of other people,” said Pathan. “It’s only going to work if we all reduce this thing together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the training, students also practice presenting fact-checked \u003ca href=\"https://ing.org/youth-presentations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">materials\u003c/a> to their community about the history of Muslims in America and their faith. Those include a list of more than 110 frequently asked questions and answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using all those those components to stem discrimination and empower students is what makes the program unique, said Ansary and Muslim leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Saman Ali, 17, finished the ING training two years ago, she gave presentations to hundreds of students at her high school about the basics of her religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to show kids that Muslims are just like anybody else,” said Ali, a senior at Monte Vista High School in Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she realized most of her peers didn’t know much about Islam. Classmates asked her if she fasted during Ramadan, why she doesn’t wear a hijab and if she prays five times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They definitely wanted to know what do you do as a Muslim kid,” she said. “I can understand why they were confused. So I was there to clarify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monte Vista High teacher Jill Seidenverg has repeatedly invited Ali to share her presentation in her AP world history class. Students are often more receptive to learning from a peer, said Seidenverg, and she's seen a positive impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='bullying' label='Related Coverage']“The more you know, the less afraid you are. And the less afraid you are, the less hateful or hurtful you can be as a human,” said Seidenverg, who has taught for 29 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience also helps the youth speakers gain confidence, as they trade their feelings of being powerless or victimized to ones of realizing they can be agents of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she used to want to transfer to another, more diverse high school. But she felt differently after taking the training and giving her presentations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt more comfortable at my school, and I also think that the kids felt more comfortable with Muslims at school because we kind of understood each other a little bit better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through another ING initiative, Ali is now collaborating with Jewish and Sikh students who also face high rates of bullying to raise awareness and tolerance at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As anti-Muslim sentiment has grown in the U.S., data show Muslim kids experience bullying and harassment at a higher rate than other students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1571084787,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1382},"headData":{"title":"Supporting Muslim Teens in Face of Islamophobia — in Their Own Schools | KQED","description":"As anti-Muslim sentiment has grown in the U.S., data show Muslim kids experience bullying and harassment at a higher rate than other students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11778501 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11778501","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/07/supporting-muslim-teens-in-face-of-islamophobia-in-their-own-schools/","disqusTitle":"Supporting Muslim Teens in Face of Islamophobia — in Their Own Schools","audioTrackLength":275,"path":"/news/11778501/supporting-muslim-teens-in-face-of-islamophobia-in-their-own-schools","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RomeroMuslimTeensCaDream.mp3","audioDuration":276000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“This girl told me I was going to hell because I’m Muslim,” said high school senior Sara Shohoud about her first incident of Islamophobia. She was in first grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know how to counter it. I was so young,” the 18-year old said. “And now, I just keep quiet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This girl told me I was going to hell because I’m Muslim.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sara Shohoud, high school senior","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Sunnyvale resident said she regrets staying silent and burying her frustration more recently, as classmates made offensive jokes about Muslims or equated them with being “terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been in those situations, and I kind of wish I could relive them because I didn't handle it the best,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shohoud decided to enroll in a program to help Muslim youths handle harassment, inform peers about their faith and, in the process, create a more positive school environment. Since the Youth Speakers Training program launched three years ago, the nonprofit Islamic Networks Group now offers it in California and seven other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778530\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11778530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Shohoud, 17, presents a sketch about Muslim identity and culture during the ING Youth Speakers program in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Muslim_Teenagers_ING-Youth-Speakers-Program_ING-training_Islamic-Network-Group_American-Teen-Muslims_Islamophobia_anti-bullying_sara-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Shohoud, 18, presents a sketch about Muslim identity and culture during the Islamic Networks Group Youth Speakers training in San Jose on Sept. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As anti-Muslim sentiment has grown in the U.S., data show Muslim kids experience bullying and harassment at a higher rate than other students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) \u003ca href=\"https://ca.cair.com/sfba/publications/2017-bullying-report/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a> 53% of Muslim school-aged children in California said they have been “made fun of, verbally insulted or abused.” Nationally, 42% of Muslim children reported being bullied, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ispu.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/American-Muslim-Poll-2017-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to\u003c/a> the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. By comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/2017/ss6708.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> found\u003c/a> 19% of all high school students say they have been bullied at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent training session at the Evergreen Islamic Center in San Jose, Shohoud and about two dozen teens sat in folding chairs, sometimes fidgeting with plastic water bottles, as they opened up about bearing the brunt of “9/11 jokes” or being insulted for their religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the kids who were becoming freshmen (this year) at this school were throwing the terms Muslim and terrorist,” Zayn Zaafran, 12, told the group, adding that he didn’t want to disclose he was Muslim. “I just backed off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I wanted to show kids that Muslims are just like anybody else.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Saman Ali, a senior at Monte Vista High School","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schools are reflecting a larger dynamic in America, where incidents of bias and violence against Muslims have increased in recent years, said Dr. Nadia Ansary, an associate professor at Rider University in New Jersey who studies discrimination and bullying of Muslim youth. She points to President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies such as the travel ban as contributing to the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidents of bias and violence against Muslims in the U.S. spiked in 2017, with 2,599 reports of violence, harassment and discrimination, according to\u003ca href=\"http://www.islamophobia.org/images/2019/Bias_Brief/BB_2_-_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a study\u003c/a> by CAIR, which has been tracking the trend since 2014. About one-third of the incidents reported, including employment discrimination and denial of service, were in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in schools is a mirror image of what's happening in society because schools are a part of our community,” said Ansary, adding that bullying puts children at greater risk for anxiety and depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Islamic Networks Group training in San Jose, students reviewed their rights at school and brainstormed how to respond to potentially thorny scenarios, such as what a Muslim student should do when jokingly asked, “Hey are you planning to bomb the school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some students suggested doing nothing or telling an adult at the school. But Shohoud offered a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A really interesting response would be to ask, ‘What makes you say that?’ So they kind of have to admit that they are being Islamophobic, and nobody really wants to do that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ishaq Pathan, the group's Bay Area director who leads the training, and the other students nodded in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, turn it back,” said Pathan, 24. “That’s a great response, because it puts the ball in their court and they have to come to terms with whatever they are saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11778606\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11778606 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39173__M6A0802-qut-1-1200x812.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Aridin and Wajdi Barghouti participate at an ING training in San Jose on Sept. 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In general, school districts have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-are-school-districts-legally-responsible-for-bullying/538619/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal obligation\u003c/a> to address bullying and protect students. California and other states have taken measures to curb the intensive and often repetitive form of harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the California Department of Education developed anti-bullying \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/se/documents/bullymodule1.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines\u003c/a> that schools must make available to teachers and other staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those steps are not enough to fully tackle the magnitude of the problem, said Ansary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a right to be educated in an environment where they're not abused. Everybody has a right to practice their faith traditions,” she said. “The data suggest that that's not where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'What happens in schools is a mirror image of what's happening in society because schools are a part of our community.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Nadia Ansary, an associate professor at Rider University in New Jersey","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If students intervene to confront bullies, start a conversation to counter negative stereotypes, or nip hurtful language or jokes in the bud, that helps create a better environment for everyone at school, Pathan told the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of this works if we just turn around and make fun of other people,” said Pathan. “It’s only going to work if we all reduce this thing together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the training, students also practice presenting fact-checked \u003ca href=\"https://ing.org/youth-presentations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">materials\u003c/a> to their community about the history of Muslims in America and their faith. Those include a list of more than 110 frequently asked questions and answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using all those those components to stem discrimination and empower students is what makes the program unique, said Ansary and Muslim leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Saman Ali, 17, finished the ING training two years ago, she gave presentations to hundreds of students at her high school about the basics of her religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to show kids that Muslims are just like anybody else,” said Ali, a senior at Monte Vista High School in Danville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she realized most of her peers didn’t know much about Islam. Classmates asked her if she fasted during Ramadan, why she doesn’t wear a hijab and if she prays five times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They definitely wanted to know what do you do as a Muslim kid,” she said. “I can understand why they were confused. So I was there to clarify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monte Vista High teacher Jill Seidenverg has repeatedly invited Ali to share her presentation in her AP world history class. Students are often more receptive to learning from a peer, said Seidenverg, and she's seen a positive impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"bullying","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The more you know, the less afraid you are. And the less afraid you are, the less hateful or hurtful you can be as a human,” said Seidenverg, who has taught for 29 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience also helps the youth speakers gain confidence, as they trade their feelings of being powerless or victimized to ones of realizing they can be agents of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said she used to want to transfer to another, more diverse high school. But she felt differently after taking the training and giving her presentations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt more comfortable at my school, and I also think that the kids felt more comfortable with Muslims at school because we kind of understood each other a little bit better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through another ING initiative, Ali is now collaborating with Jewish and Sikh students who also face high rates of bullying to raise awareness and tolerance at schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11778501/supporting-muslim-teens-in-face-of-islamophobia-in-their-own-schools","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21879"],"categories":["news_18540","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_23067","news_25612","news_26790","news_19542","news_21892","news_22386","news_20601"],"featImg":"news_11778529","label":"news_72"},"news_11744837":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11744837","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11744837","score":null,"sort":[1556978457000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-you-dont-have-to-talk-to-that-stranger-at-your-local-coffee-shop-to-be-polite","title":"No, You Don't Have to Talk to That Stranger at Your Local Coffee Shop to Be Polite","publishDate":1556978457,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Teenage girls often feel pressured to act politely in uncomfortable, and sometimes even dangerous, situations. This story was written by two juniors from Woodside High School, Taila Lee and Chloe Postlewaite, for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/youth-takeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a> series.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: We’re 16-year-old teenage girls, so naturally, we were at our local Starbucks, working on a school project. We were having a conversation when a 20-something-year-old man approached us and asked if we had the Uber app on our phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Neither of us did, so we apologized and said, \"no.\" Then he said, \"Can I sit down and talk to you guys? I just got out of jail and I really need to talk to someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: Without waiting for an answer, he pulled up a chair, sat down with us and started talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: We waited there, nodding patiently and listening to him, because politely asking him to leave seemed impossible. He continued with his story, casually asking us how old we were. What school we went to. If he could buy us a drink. Then he said, \"I actually didn’t even need an Uber. I just wanted to talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11745101 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1020x1112.jpg\" alt=\"Taila Lee, 16, is a student at Woodside High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1020x1112.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-800x872.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1101x1200.jpg 1101w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taila Lee, 16, is a student at Woodside High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Taila Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: He apologized for interrupting our study session and although he was generally pleasant, he never implied that he was going to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: We texted each other about what to do, all the while still nodding and smiling at him. But, when he left to go to the bathroom, we grabbed our belongings and ran out of the cafe. We sprinted for two blocks. The worst part was that, when we left, we felt guilty for leaving him alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: We haven’t been back since. Zoe Mason, a junior at Woodside High School, mentioned a similar situation she was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was walking home from school and this guy approached me and wanted to talk about the flowers in his yard,\" Mason said. \"So even though I felt a little bit uncomfortable that this much older man was trying to get me to talk to him, I stood there for a few minutes until I could excuse myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Ever since kindergarten, your parents and teachers tell you not to talk to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They raise you to be aware of the whole 'stranger danger' thing, but... my parents raised me to be polite and kind and nice,\" Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11745102 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1020x1223.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Postlewaite, 16, is a student at Woodside High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1020x1223.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-800x959.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1001x1200.jpg 1001w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe Postlewaite, 16, is a student at Woodside High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Chloe Postlewaite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: In middle school, we’re told not to reveal any personal information about ourselves, like our name, age or school. But social media has blurred these lines. When I was 13, a man started messaging my public Instagram account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first I thought he was just a kid trying to be friendly, but small talk quickly escalated to him asking me invasive questions and trying to role-play. I was worried about acting rude to someone who I thought was just trying to be nice. But when I found out he was 23, I finally blocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[aside label=\"more stories from the youth takeover\" tag=\"youth-takeover\"]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Although the #MeToo movement has made a powerful impact on society, there’s still more to be done. Sure, #MeToo empowers women and spreads awareness for sexual assault. But at the same time, it doesn’t address the pressure to be polite, especially for young women placed in potentially dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard to be polite has not been directly addressed by #MeToo, but the movement has still helped to end the stigma to speak about prevalent issues directly affecting women. Students at Woodside now have more access to campus resources to deal with these concerns, like counseling, confidential doctor appointments and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: Practicing how to leave a difficult situation and how to say no are essential to ending this problem. This is only a temporary solution since female high school students are still expected to conform to unrealistic behavioral standards. Girls are supposed to value safety over courtesy, but also act politely in all circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until this expectation changes, teenage girls will continue to struggle with these uncomfortable situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: This is your reminder. Whether it’s online or in person, it is always okay to say no.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two 16-year-old students were at their local Starbucks working on a project when a man approached them and asked if he could talk to them. 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This story was written by two juniors from Woodside High School, Taila Lee and Chloe Postlewaite, for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/youth-takeover\">Youth Takeover\u003c/a> series.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: We’re 16-year-old teenage girls, so naturally, we were at our local Starbucks, working on a school project. We were having a conversation when a 20-something-year-old man approached us and asked if we had the Uber app on our phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Neither of us did, so we apologized and said, \"no.\" Then he said, \"Can I sit down and talk to you guys? I just got out of jail and I really need to talk to someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: Without waiting for an answer, he pulled up a chair, sat down with us and started talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: We waited there, nodding patiently and listening to him, because politely asking him to leave seemed impossible. He continued with his story, casually asking us how old we were. What school we went to. If he could buy us a drink. Then he said, \"I actually didn’t even need an Uber. I just wanted to talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745101\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11745101 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1020x1112.jpg\" alt=\"Taila Lee, 16, is a student at Woodside High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1020x1112.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-160x174.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-800x872.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut-1101x1200.jpg 1101w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_taila-qut.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taila Lee, 16, is a student at Woodside High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Taila Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: He apologized for interrupting our study session and although he was generally pleasant, he never implied that he was going to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: We texted each other about what to do, all the while still nodding and smiling at him. But, when he left to go to the bathroom, we grabbed our belongings and ran out of the cafe. We sprinted for two blocks. The worst part was that, when we left, we felt guilty for leaving him alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: We haven’t been back since. Zoe Mason, a junior at Woodside High School, mentioned a similar situation she was in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was walking home from school and this guy approached me and wanted to talk about the flowers in his yard,\" Mason said. \"So even though I felt a little bit uncomfortable that this much older man was trying to get me to talk to him, I stood there for a few minutes until I could excuse myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Ever since kindergarten, your parents and teachers tell you not to talk to strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They raise you to be aware of the whole 'stranger danger' thing, but... my parents raised me to be polite and kind and nice,\" Mason said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11745102 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1020x1223.jpg\" alt=\"Chloe Postlewaite, 16, is a student at Woodside High School.\" width=\"640\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1020x1223.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-160x192.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-800x959.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut-1001x1200.jpg 1001w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/coffee_chloe-qut.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chloe Postlewaite, 16, is a student at Woodside High School. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Chloe Postlewaite)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: In middle school, we’re told not to reveal any personal information about ourselves, like our name, age or school. But social media has blurred these lines. When I was 13, a man started messaging my public Instagram account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first I thought he was just a kid trying to be friendly, but small talk quickly escalated to him asking me invasive questions and trying to role-play. I was worried about acting rude to someone who I thought was just trying to be nice. But when I found out he was 23, I finally blocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more stories from the youth takeover ","tag":"youth-takeover"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: Although the #MeToo movement has made a powerful impact on society, there’s still more to be done. Sure, #MeToo empowers women and spreads awareness for sexual assault. But at the same time, it doesn’t address the pressure to be polite, especially for young women placed in potentially dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard to be polite has not been directly addressed by #MeToo, but the movement has still helped to end the stigma to speak about prevalent issues directly affecting women. Students at Woodside now have more access to campus resources to deal with these concerns, like counseling, confidential doctor appointments and community groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chloe\u003c/strong>: Practicing how to leave a difficult situation and how to say no are essential to ending this problem. This is only a temporary solution since female high school students are still expected to conform to unrealistic behavioral standards. Girls are supposed to value safety over courtesy, but also act politely in all circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until this expectation changes, teenage girls will continue to struggle with these uncomfortable situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taila\u003c/strong>: This is your reminder. Whether it’s online or in person, it is always okay to say no.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11744837/no-you-dont-have-to-talk-to-that-stranger-at-your-local-coffee-shop-to-be-polite","authors":["byline_news_11744837"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21892","news_21804","news_23013"],"featImg":"news_11745100","label":"source_news_11744837"},"news_11688338":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11688338","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11688338","score":null,"sort":[1534981342000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"details-of-uber-harassment-settlement-released","title":"Details of Uber Harassment Settlement Released","publishDate":1534981342,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Five months after Uber reached a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit filed by women and people of color who worked there as engineers, new details are emerging about the terms of the deal. The plaintiffs, both current and former employees, say they were subjected to harassment and discrimination at Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest development for a company that has come under fire for its workplace culture in recent years. Uber has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">the firing of at least 20 employees\u003c/a> over sexual harassment allegations and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/21/533754816/uber-founder-resigns-under-pressure-as-ceo-published-report-says\">departure of its CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of the $10 million settlement have not yet received final approval from a federal judge — a session scheduled for Nov. 6. The deal was announced in March and granted preliminary approval by a judge in April, according to a court filing from the settlement administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty-six people are set to receive an average payout of nearly $34,000 because they filed specific claims of \"incidents of discrimination, harassment, and/or hostile work environment and connecting their experiences to their race, national origin or gender,\" court documents state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount will be determined using a scoring process, which takes into account the nature of the reported harassment, whom the offender is, whether there was a witness or other documentation and the impact of the harassment on the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A larger group of 483 people will be paid an average of nearly $11,000 because of other discrimination claims, according to the documents. The original lawsuit was filed by two Latina engineers, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who say they were systematically discriminated against because of their gender and ethnic background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court filings say 487 class members were contacted about participating in the case. Nobody objected, and two opted out. The terms of the deal were reported Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-21/uber-harassment-settlement-56-workers-to-split-1-9-million\">by Bloomberg\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We agree with the plaintiff's motion which states that 'the class has responded extremely favorably to the settlement' with amounts that are 'fair, reasonable, and adequate,' \" Uber said in a statement to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber has stressed that it is working to change. The company says it is taking actions on the issues highlighted by this lawsuit, including putting in place a new salary and equity structure and changing the performance review process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Moving forward, it's time to move in a new direction,\" CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZyw5lPKgE\">TV commercial\u003c/a>. \"This begins with new leadership and a new culture. ... One of our core values as a company is to always to the right thing. And if there are times when we fall short, we commit to being open, taking responsibility for the problem and fixing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the company conducted an investigation into more than 200 complaints of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">NPR's Yuki Noguchi reported\u003c/a>. The 20 employees it fired included senior executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation received attention, Noguchi said, \"in part because Silicon Valley already has a reputation for attracting and catering to male tech talent, but not to women. So, in a way, Uber is a test case for how serious the tech industry is about fixing its gender-diversity problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months before the investigation concluded, a former Uber engineer named Susan Fowler \u003ca href=\"https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber\">published a blog post\u003c/a> saying her new manager had propositioned her for sex the day she joined his team. When she went to report the situation to human resources, she says she was told that \"they wouldn't feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Details+Of+Uber+Harassment+Settlement+Released&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Dozens of women and minorities who said they were harassed while working as engineers at Uber filed a class-action lawsuit. Hundreds of people also sued for discrimination claims.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1534981342,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":603},"headData":{"title":"Details of Uber Harassment Settlement Released | KQED","description":"Dozens of women and minorities who said they were harassed while working as engineers at Uber filed a class-action lawsuit. 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The plaintiffs, both current and former employees, say they were subjected to harassment and discrimination at Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the latest development for a company that has come under fire for its workplace culture in recent years. Uber has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\">the firing of at least 20 employees\u003c/a> over sexual harassment allegations and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/21/533754816/uber-founder-resigns-under-pressure-as-ceo-published-report-says\">departure of its CEO\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of the $10 million settlement have not yet received final approval from a federal judge — a session scheduled for Nov. 6. 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The original lawsuit was filed by two Latina engineers, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who say they were systematically discriminated against because of their gender and ethnic background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court filings say 487 class members were contacted about participating in the case. Nobody objected, and two opted out. The terms of the deal were reported Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-21/uber-harassment-settlement-56-workers-to-split-1-9-million\">by Bloomberg\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We agree with the plaintiff's motion which states that 'the class has responded extremely favorably to the settlement' with amounts that are 'fair, reasonable, and adequate,' \" Uber said in a statement to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber has stressed that it is working to change. 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