Front Page: Hero of Intellectual Freedom: Jodi Shaw. ACTA is proud to announce our first 2021 Hero of Intellectual Freedom: Jodi Shaw, a former student support coordinator in the Department of Residence Life at Smith College. Ms. Shaw resigned from her position after undertaking exhaustive efforts to address her concerns about the school’s enforcement of mandatory diversity training and its aggressive adoption of critical race theory.
John Bolton served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019 during the Trump Administration.
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