Erica Jacqueline Licht

Working towards a more just reality.
Research Projects Director, @IARA_HKS @HarvardAsh
Host of #UntyingKnots Podcast

[Erica Jacqueline Licht @Erica_Licht]

@erika4rep 🙌🙌

[The Emancipator @the_emancipator]

In 2021, less than 1% of the staggering $420 billion of VC funding was allocated to women-led ventures. Merely 1.2% was directed toward Black startup founders, with a paltry 0.34% invested in Black women. https://t.co/IelX4KZHNi

[Amber Sims @msberbiage]

College students from Texas were literally crowd-sourcing to raise money to attend THIS NABJ conference because organizational budgets for Black and POC students were eliminated due to racist, anti-DEI legislation brought forth by this former President and his cronies.

[Erica Jacqueline Licht @Erica_Licht]

Just finished watching 20 min of #DeadpoolandWolverine before walking out of the theater. Almost half of the punch lines focused on men having sex with men, and almost all of them were extremely #homophobic.

Do better @MarvelStudios @Marvel
Do better @LandmarkLTC @AMCTheatres

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

In the latest episode of Untying Knots, hosts @Erica_Licht and @pumpernikhil sit down with filmmaker Ava DuVernay to discuss how she uses that medium to interface with her audience on salient topics of history and racism

🎧 Listen to the episode here ⤵️
https://t.co/C1J4C0Qlrg

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

"The list goes on in terms of the beneficial impact to faculty and staff as demonstrated through satisfaction surveys as well as the resulting robustness of scholarship and higher quality of curricula," notes @Erica_Licht on the impact of DEI programs

https://t.co/qtttOQAktz

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

“As a result of [DEI] programs, students graduate with less bias and have an increased ability to work in teams. The programs promote peer acceptance and benefit both Black, Indigenous and students of color, but also all students," says @Erica_Licht ⤵️

https://t.co/qtttOQAktz

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Wow. Beautiful. A reminder as they are banning affirmative action and DEI and pretending we’ve suddenly become post-racial how very near this so-called racist past is.

[Dr Eric Ndushabandi @EricNdushaband1]

@Kennedy_School Harvard Sharing @RwandaGov @Unity_MemoryRw experience of Community-driven Reco efforts as well as learning from different exper.Greatful to Prof @KhalilGMuhammad & Dr @GloriaYAyee @Erica_Licht 4 great opportunity @BarbaraLeeForCA @CRHRD_Rwanda @AmbMukantabana

[MindShift @MindShiftKQED]

Anti-bias understanding is essential for the health of a fair and functioning multiracial democracy. @Erica_Licht @KhalilGMuhammad @learnforjustice

A CALL FOR ANTI-BIAS EDUCATION
https://t.co/tqvTGjbpIr

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

If you’re aware that a group is engaging in a propaganda campaign, you as a journalist have an ethical responsibility not to legitimize it. It is not a secret what’s happening with “DEI.” They’ve used the same playbook with “woke” and “CRT” and yet journalists keep doing this.

[Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸 @PenielJoseph]

This is an absolute disgrace. A moral tragedy that returns Texas back to a dark past. This is how Reconstruction ends once again, with assaults on the very aspirations of Black dignity and citizenship.

[The Journalist's Resource @JournoResource]

In our recent webinar, co-hosted with @IARA_HKS, three researchers offered journalists tips and insights to help strengthen news coverage of college #DEI efforts and legislators' push to restrict or ban them. Here are some of the key takeaways: https://t.co/xrqO9z4qbA

[The Journalist's Resource @JournoResource]

Today at 1 p.m. ET join us for "DEI in Higher Education: Five Truths and Five Myths," presented with @IARA_HKS and featuring @KhalilGMuhammad, @Erica_Licht & @KrisRenn, moderated by our own @DeniseOrdway.

Don't miss it! Register:

https://t.co/cfaJbMgKIQ

[The Journalist's Resource @JournoResource]

What are the most important questions journalists should be asking about DEI in higher education?

Researchers @KhalilGMuhammad, @KrisRenn & @Erica_Licht will weigh in during our free webinar w/ @IARA_HKS on Mar 28 at 1 pm ET. Sign up here: https://t.co/1XB2jWp7Gw

[The Journalist's Resource @JournoResource]

Researchers @KrisRenn of @michiganstateu and @KhalilGMuhammad & @Erica_Licht of @Kennedy_School will discuss the most important questions journalists should ask about #DEI in higher ed.

The free webinar, Mar 28 at 1 pm ET, is open to all. Register: https://t.co/1XB2jWp7Gw

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

"We must redouble our efforts for diversity, equity and inclusion, and support Black, Indigenous and students of color, as well as Jewish, Muslim, and Arab students, as they navigate campuses that are increasingly under attack," says @Erica_Licht ⤵️

https://t.co/n2t4fuoWLx

[Jonathan Feingold @JPYGold]

piercing @Erica_Licht @cnn op-ed:

Antisemitism is the toxic result of White supremacist discourse. It is rooted in historical myths about who deserves entry to elite institutions. White supremacy is a poison that affects both Jews [&] people of color.

https://t.co/uNZmEltyhH

[Harvard Ash Center @HarvardAsh]

In her latest article for CNN, @IARA_HKS's @Erica_Licht explains that in her experience, the antiracist movement does not go hand in hand with increased antisemitism

Read more from her time at Harvard here ⤵️
https://t.co/n2t4fuoWLx

[Griffin Jones, DrPH, MPP @GJones_DrPH]

Very grateful for this insightful and vividly written linkage of struggles by @Erica_Licht, of @IARA_HKS.

IF you stand against the dehumanization of people based on religion, ancestry, and racialization, then your struggle, too, is linked.