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The Yale Law School’s Strategic Advocacy Clinic filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of a professor who alleges she faced sex and race-based harassment during her time at Bard College.
The civil complaint was filed on Aug. 25 in the Southern District of New York. The Law School clinic, which focuses on criminal justice and inequality issues, is representing an unnamed gay Black female professor against Bard College, the plaintiff’s previous employer. While at Bard College, the plaintiff says she advocated for the victims of racial and sexual harrasment at Bard. Last year, Bard College launched an investigation into the professor — ultimately leading to her termination. The Law School clinic’s complaint was filed on charges of racial and sex-based harrassment during the plaintiff’s employment, as well as a hostile campus environment for people of color.
“Bard College purports to be a liberal, forward-thinking institution that values diversity of identity and of thought,” Saja Spearman-Weaver LAW ’23 said. “And in some ways, it may make good on its promises. But for our client, and the students of color she worked to protect, the inner politics of Bard College were a source of trauma and betrayal. I think this case is exceedingly relevant to our nation’s continued efforts to make our behavior match our constitutional ideals.”
Avery Gilbert, clinical lecturer and director of the strategic advocacy clinic, said that the case involves “a long...
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