Jenny Yang, A&S ’92, of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) met with ILR students and faculty March 6 to discuss her career and the role of EEOC in enforcing discrimination laws. Yang was sworn in as a commissioner in 2013 and will end her service this July.
In this story on the ILR website, ILR Associate Professor Kate Griffith’said Yang told the class about recent cases of religious discrimination, race discrimination and the EEOC’s work on the gender pay gap.
“We also heard about the EEOC’s efforts, while Yang was Commission chair, to apply employment discrimination protections to discriminatory behavior based on sexual orientation and gender identity,” Griffith said.
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
