This page is two things: (1) a fundraising campaign to help me finish my doctoral program at Harvard, which–if you’ve seen in our videos–the administration and leadership has made impossible over the past, whopping 13 years (the average is 6-8 years); (2) a project to tell my own stories (and those of many-many others who are like) on how Harvard treats certain students versus certain “others.”
In my case, they’ve managed this through a series of less-than-honest (and much worse) tactics and actions–unmerited and mainly because they know they can get away with it, or hide behind bureaucratic layer after bureaucratic layer. In the meantime: wasting my time, energy, finances–and extending my program, not to mention my debt. Literally bankrupting me.
Mainly they’ve directed their efforts, through a series of “strategies”–documented in the videos and posts on this site–to silence me, both subtly and blatant. Among the many devices has been dangling my “status” in front of my face like carrot, arbitrarily changing my status, threatening me with eviction, bankrupting me (and “starving me out”), even depriving me of my federal rights to loan funding.
The list of ugly, manipulative, and probably illegal tactics–that Harvard is (regrettably) all-too-well-known for–goes on.
We’ve all watched the news over the past few months and years. This is hardly a surprise, to anyone.
This is an on-going and evolving project–to both complete what I came here to do, but also to secure justice. That’s a justice not just for me. It’s also for many-many others that are like me: students who worked their tails off to get here and that, for Harvard, have a different set of (unwritten) rules placed on us.
And, worse still, have been unable to speak out against this secretive and discriminatory pattern of behavior, actions, and general policy.
Just like me, they’re middle- or working-class students–the children of plumbers, factory workers, office receptionists, school teachers, you name it–who have earned the basic dignity and respect of being treated like full members of the Harvard University community.
Not “tokens” to be dangled in front of the cameras–to show that they’ve admitted a certain number of this or that class or type of student–and the thrown out the back door when they’ve worn out their usefulness.
Or worse–for Harvard, at least–who have asked too many questions, dared to act like their richer/fancier classmates, or are just a quote-unquote “potential liability” to Harvard University’s precious brand.