This project has three core aims:
(1) Raise awareness “from behind the scenes” about how Harvard University treats (and mistreats) its students and other affiliates who belong to underrepresented groups–ethnic minorities, of working-class background, the disabled, and others–through a unfair, and illegal, actions it things it can get away with;
(2) To tell my own stories–within my legal limitations, in the face of a notoriously litigious “University,” which tries to drown people out with waves of frivolous lawsuits–about my experience and observations, throughout nearly 15 years of being a student, employee, and resident here;
(3) Serve as 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 15 years (the average is 6-8 years). They’ve used a litany of excuses to delay, and withhold, my degree completion–destroying my career, reputation, health, and nearly every other aspect of my life by abusing their massive institutional power;
Harvard has subjected me to a prolonged campaign of intimidation, harassment, and outright bullying to prevent from speaking up. And, once they learned word has gotten out–into the right hands–retaliated and “punish” me for it.
They’ve achieved this through a long list of deliberate–and knowingly illegal–actions targeted directly at me.
This includes:
- False allegations, and illegal arrests (and violent brutalization) by their private police force
- Arbitrarily messing with my status with University, just to sabotage my work and force my silence
- Breaking federal law, in tampering with my federally guaranteed right to federal loans
- Violating a long list of housing laws, including several attempts to illegally evict me
The list goes on and on. These are, and will be, the subject of posts on this site.
In fact, it would be hard to believe: if Harvard didn’t already have a well-known reputation for doing all of these things to its students, faculty, and employees. The news about the dark side of Harvard is abundant.
Oh, actually, there’s actually a fourth–and most important–core aim to this project:
(4) To secure justice. Not just for me. But also for many-many others that are like me: students who worked their tails off to get here and that Harvard bullied and shoved out the back door to save their own skin, rather than take care of its people.
I wish I were alone–because I wouldn’t wish what I’ve gone through on even an enemy–but I’m, regrettably, far from alone.
But this project needs your help. Whether you’re someone who’s been victim to Harvard’s abusive practices, someone who cares about accountability from our large and powerful institutions, or a professional (legal, media, or otherwise) who has devoted their career to alerting the public–we want to hear from you.
Let’s make this place–which, despite being “private,” belongs to all of us as citizens–better for everyone, not just the selected few who fit the right description.