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Political science professor at Emerson College, Director of Emerson Prison Initiative. All postings my own.

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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Boston area people, come join me and an amazing line-up of colleagues for this (free but ticketed) evening of conversation on memory politics: artsemerson.org/events/the-p...
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The Point: The Performance of Commemoration: Who Gets Remembered? - ArtsEmerson
How are Indigenous artists using performance to shape not just how we understand the past, but how we imagine the future? As ArtsEmerson marks America 250 by delving into complex conversations about t...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you, Ithaka S+R for supporting @emersoncollege.bsky.social's Emerson Prison Initiative and @Partakers in our shared work, supporting both incarcerated college students and returning citizens. Read about it in the full report: sr.ithaka.org/publications...
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College and Community Partnerships for Reentry - Ithaka S+R
In 2023, Ithaka S+R undertook a three-year study, funded by ECMC Foundation, to explore how college programs and community organizations partner to create pathways to support students in achieving the...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congratulations to @emersoncollege.bsky.social's Emerson Prison Initiative on our next area of growth--offering Massachusetts' only graduate certificate for people who have completed their BAs in prison: emerson.edu/news/epi-to-... #EducationForAll #EducationMatters
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Emerson Prison Initiative expansion
The Emerson Prison Initiative received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish a graduate certificate program at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@emersoncollege.bsky.social's Emerson Prison Initiative is featured on episode #178 of the Hustler Files about our college-in-prison work, with shout-outs to Team EPI and also @bardcollege.bsky.social's Bard Prison Initiative: whmp.com/podcasts/the...
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The Hustler Files Ep 178 | WHMP 101.5 / 1400 AM
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@bardcollege.bsky.social alums in the Boston area! Come join us for an evening of togetherness next week: bardian.bard.edu/register/bos...
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Boston-area Cities Party
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Boston-area folks, join us! The Alabama Solution' Screening, Panel, & Reception Tuesday, September 29 6:00pm Coolidge Corner Theater 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446 secure.everyaction.com/d9-zWRwYaU-b...
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The Alabama Solution at Coolidge Corner Theater
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.mass.gov/news/massach...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
About to teach this film in my US-Latin American relations class in prison tomorrow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gW8...
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Harvest of Empire The Untold Story of Latinos in America
YouTube video by Incarcerated Nation Network INC Media
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Huge thanks to the many colleagues for great conversations at @apsa.bsky.social American Political Science Association conference, and special shout out to @polisciatnu.bsky.social alumni and grad students who joined me on Emerson College's beautiful urban campus for our reception on Boston Common!
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.mass.gov/doc/massachusetts-fy25-juvenile-justice-data-brief-racial-and-ethnic-disparities/download
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Delighted to update my title to Professor of Political Science with my @emersoncollege.bsky.social promotion taking effect today! Thanks to colleagues and mentors who supported me in so many ways throughout the years, especially @polisciatnu.bsky.social Northwestern's Will Reno and Jim Mahoney.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Looking forward to APSA in Boston next week! I'll be doing a zillion things with fabulous colleagues, and one of them is the Methods Café, where we get to talk all things methods and methodology. Come join if you are attending! www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe...
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Methods Café 2026 — Interpretive Methodologies and Methods
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Excellent new international relations/US-Latin American politics analysis by Nancy Okail and @mpaarlberg.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/what...
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Defeating the Donroe Doctrine: Latin America Can Resist Trump’s Gunboat Racketeering | Common Dreams
Performative violence—aka executions without trial at sea—overshadows how the administration is building a new US policy towards the hemisphere: acts of murder as a tool to create permanent structures...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/federalwhist...
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Federal Whistleblowers Reveal | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thanks to Jody Lewen & Amy Jamgochian for their very resonate reflection on college in prison: www.mttamcollege.edu/letter-from-...
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Letter from the President: Reflections on Academic Freedom in Prison - Mount Tamalpais College
One of the greatest challenges of communicating with the outside world about life inside Mount Tamalpais College is conveying how the setting of the prison informs the experience for everyone involved...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/cjfs-urges-h...
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CJFS Urges Higher Ed Leaders to Reject | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
CJFS Urges Higher Ed Leaders to Reject Trump 2.0
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My Rabbi reflecting on his trip to the West Bank: religionnews.com/2026/08/10/r...
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As a rabbi, I can't look away from the West Bank. Neither should you.
(RNS) — The Israeli government just indicted a settler for allegedly killing Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen. A rabbi who visited the village where Awdah was killed explains why justice has not a...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Excellent writing from @zinaidamiller.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...
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Zinaida Miller | Meanings of Ceasefire
At best, ceasefires are interim arrangements that gesture towards peace by temporarily suspending formal hostilities,...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My thoughts and those of others about El Salvador's 2027 election: thedialogue.org/latin-americ... #ElSalvador
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Latin America Advisor – Inter-American Dialogue
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.wbur.org/news/2026/07...
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Another longtime immigration judge no longer at Boston court
Judge Brenda O'Malley's departure comes as more than a dozen Massachusetts immigration judges have been fired under the Trump administration, and more than 100 nationally, even as the courts face mass...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
beta.elfaro.net/el-salvador/...
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Irvin Quintanilla desapareció en las cárceles de El Salvador
Están por cumplirse 16 meses desde que el salvadoreño Irvin Quintanilla, de 25 años, fue deportado junto con 252 venezolanos desde Estados Unidos al CECOT en El Salvador. El Estado admitió que estaba ...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A very valuable resource, now available in Eng/Span: reentryillinois.net/reentry-guid...
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Reentry Guides - Prison Reentry and Deportation Resources
Find essential reentry and deportation resources, guides, and support for individuals impacted by incarceration or deportation in Illinois and nationwide.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Concerned about censorship of political art: www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/ridley-censo...
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Ridley Censorship Press Release | Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Congratulations to Lizzy Cooper Davis on this new work opening in Boston: companyone.org/a-new-era/ - Go see it if you can!
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A New Era - Company One Theatre
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Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative @iwbcollab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Learn more about the incredible work of our scholar affiliates in the latest edition of our newsletter, The Im/migrant Well-Being Newsletter. Volume 3 is available on both our website and Substack. Website: iwbcollab.org/the-im-migra... Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theiwbco...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What an extraordinary group of colleagues that came together for the @ipsarc14.bsky.social; @ipsa.org, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @autonomyexperience.bsky.social minority rights conference! So appreciative of the intellectual community you all invoke and inspire! #ipsarc14bz
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Thanks to colleagues in beautiful Bolzano/Bozen at #ipsarc14bz @autonomyexperience.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @ipsarc14.bsky.social for their comments on my newest book, Learning to Survive: Yurok Well-Being in High School: www.pennpress.org/978151282851...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Greatly enjoying the IPSA conference on minority rights in Bolzano/Bozen, with many excellent presentations from colleagues @euracminorities.bsky.social @autonomyexperience.bsky.social! #ipsarc14bz #humanrights
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"If we don't tell our stories, someone will do it for us": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrqa...
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Why Stories About Formerly Incarcerated Learners Matter
YouTube video by Ascendium's Education Philanthropy
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
El impacto del World Cup es más grande que muchos saben: www.elsaltodiario.com/mapas/mundia... #migration #humanrights
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Ante el Mundial, la limpieza: resistencia de una comunidad migrante en Ciudad de México
El Campamento Vallejo alberga a 50 familias extranjeras, cerca de 240 personas, 92 de ellas menores de edad, que llevan hasta dos años esperando una resolución del sistema de asilo mexicano. Con el Mu...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
De Rodrigo Yedra: El impacto del World Cup es más grande que muchos saben: www.elsaltodiario.com/mapas/mundia... #migration #humanrights
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Ante el Mundial, la limpieza: resistencia de una comunidad migrante en Ciudad de México
El Campamento Vallejo alberga a 50 familias extranjeras, cerca de 240 personas, 92 de ellas menores de edad, que llevan hasta dos años esperando una resolución del sistema de asilo mexicano. Con el Mu...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Getting ready to head to Bolzano/Bozen Italy for the IPSA RC Colloquium on minority rights! There will be a panel on my newest book: www.pennpress.org/978151282851... and I'll present a paper on discrimination and education politics in Mexico #ipsarc14bz
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Learning to Survive – Penn Press
Traces the experiences of Yurok high school students and educators as they navigate between Native and non-Native spacesLearning to Survive explores how Nati...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Documentation of links between deportation and risks to well-being: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I appreciate Arms Down's framing of gun violence as an addiction to guns, and therefore using a public health/therapeutic approach to address it: www.kqed.org/news/1205333...
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Why Does Gun Violence Happen? This San Quentin Program Asks the People Behind the Gun | KQED
In the Arms Down program, “firearm addiction” is treated like an alcohol addiction.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Interviewed on Telemundo; if we want to actually eliminate violence, we need to address the root causes: unequal access to insufficient resources: www.telemundonuevainglaterra.com/video/videos...
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Desmantelan red de pandilla ‘Los Trinitarios’ en Massachusetts
En total 26 personas enfrentan cargos federales de narcotráfico, cinco homicidios y 19 intentos de homicidio.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.npr.org/2026/06/10/g...
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San Francisco immigration court shuts down, striking at heart of historic advocacy
The main San Francisco court was one of the busiest in the country, hearing thousands of cases a year. It was also one of the courts most likely to grant an immigrants' asylum application.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.masslive.com/news/2026/06...
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Photos reveal stark isolation inside Mass. prison units tied to suicides: ‘God help me’
Three men hanged themselves with bedsheets inside the units last year, and advocates say the state is flouting its own 2018 reform law.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@mpaarlberg.bsky.social just published a really excellent chapter on MS-13, its organizational structure, and why it isn't a major drug trafficking organization: drive.google.com/file/d/1KI18...
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Cocaine Chapter 7.pdf
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It was an honor to do a "lunch and learn" talk for the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence to share about how the Emerson Prison Initiative's college in prison access is part of violence reduction work: emerson.edu/epi - Thank for helping redefine what makes communities safe!
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Want to buy my books but wish they were cheaper? For the next few weeks, 40% off all available books on pennpress.org with promo code PENN-SUMMER26 at checkout. #womenalsoknowstuff #politics www.pennpress.org/978151282851...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Witness intimidation in El Salvador documented: ysuca.org.sv/2026/06/abog... #ElSalvador
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Abogada advierte intimidación a testigos en casos del régimen - YSUCA, 91.7 FM
Escuchar este artículo El miedo a declarar en procesos judiciales vinculados al régimen de excepción podría estar afectando el derecho de defensa y el debido proceso, advirtió la abogada penalista Rox...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Concerning inflation in Salvadoran prison commodities pricing: www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/p...
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Penales aumenta precios de alimentos en las cárceles salvadoreñas - La Prensa Gráfica
Los nuevos precios entraron en vigencia el 18 de mayo de 2026, con incrementos en alimentos que consumen los reos, pero también en lo que producen.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@lasabluesky.bsky.social @lasa-migraciones.bsky.social LASA Colleagues, join for workshops on expert witnessing: -May 30, 8:30-10am, Oral Testimony in the U.S. Immigration Court -May 30, 5:15-06:45pm, Written Testimony in court I've written about this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Inability to Protect: Mexican State Capacity and Expert Witnessing in United States Asylum Claims - Mneesha Gellman, 2025
This article focuses on how the Mexican state remains unable to protect certain categories of people based on particular identity characteristics. I draw on exa...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is one of the more powerful pieces I've read on incarceration while female: www.law.georgetown.edu/american-cri...
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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The Trial Court’s “Soft Diplomacy” With ICE Is Not a Strategy. It’s Surrender. — CfJJ
The Massachusetts Trial Court recently suggested that the PROTECT Act — legislation that would protect against immigration arrests inside state courthouses without a judicial warrant — would disrupt t...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/05/2026
President Trump and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon are weakening students’ ability to challenge discrimination. Congress must intervene to demand that the Department of Education ensures equal educational opportunities for all students.
Black text: "By dismantling the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, the Trump administration is hollowing out the main federal avenue to protect students from discrimination.
Since 2025 began, the agency has reached: 78% fewer resolutions for civil rights violations overall; 78% fewer disability resolutions; 0 resolutions involving sexual harassment or violence, racial harassment, or discriminatory school discipline; 0 resolutions in 15 states and Puerto Rico. Source: Justice Denied: How Trump's Office for Civil Rights Reached a 12-Year Low in Protecting Students from Discrimination." ACLU logo. Yellow background.
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
As we transition to summer, this is all still happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...
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How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Check out the Department of Correction for the state of Maine Commissioner Randy Liberty talk about trauma and mental health: deconstructingstigma.org/stories/rand...
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Randall Opens Up About Mental Health and Recovery
As a leader, one of my duties is to bring awareness to the issue of mental health.I try to let people know that it’s natural to have strong responses to…
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@EmersonCollege Board of Trustees confirmed my promotion to full professor, the final step in a many-step process filled with academic benchmarks over many years. I appreciate all those, both at Emerson and elsewhere as anonymous reviewers, who participated in my promotion review. Thank you!
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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Can the Argentine President’s Deregulatory Frenzy Buoy the Global Right?
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