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Managing Editor: @UCBerkeleyIRP Author: In a Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers Past: @propublica @reveal
Jul 26, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I have a story out today in the @NewYorker. This is a story that asks you to think about, as one expert put it to me, "the ways that human trafficking intersects with the legitimate economy."
newyorker.com/news/a-reporte… This is also a story about people who have survived trafficking, and I hope it reveals the incredible extent of their resiliency.
Mar 11, 2020 16 tweets 6 min read
1/Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison today. He was convicted in New York City in late February for criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree. Jurors acquitted him on the more serious charges. nytimes.com/2020/03/11/nyr… 2/The conviction offered a measure of justice to some in the #MeToo movement. nytimes.com/2020/02/24/nyr…