NEW YORK and BOSTON, March 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sanford Heisler Sharp announced today that Public Justice is joining as co-counsel in its ongoing litigation against Harvard University and the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

On February 8, 2022, Sanford Heisler Sharp filed a complaint in Massachusetts federal court alleging that Harvard willfully ignored nearly a decade of sexual harassment and retaliation by tenured anthropology professor John Comaroff. Together, Sanford Heisler Sharp and Public Justice represent Margaret Czerwienski, Lilia Kilburn, and Amulya Mandava, who are graduate students in Harvard’s Anthropology Department.

“We are pleased to partner with Public Justice, an organization with an impressive reputation for protecting the civil rights of students,” said Russell Kornblith, partner and general counsel at Sanford Heisler Sharp and counsel to the plaintiffs. “The organization’s involvement in this case adds another important voice to the calls for accountability. Harvard must act to protect students.”

Public Justice is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that is dedicated to protecting civil rights and expanding access to justice. The attorneys in its Students’ Civil Rights Project are at the forefront of Title IX litigation and advocacy and have extensive experience representing students who experience gender-based harassment or discrimination in their K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.

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