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‘Gag order’ against sexual assault

By Sara Ganim

June 2, 2022

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This episode of Why Don’t We Know was done in collaboration with the Spencer Education fellowship at Columbia University, where host Sara Ganim was a fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Additionally, a companion piece ran in USA Today, elaborating on specific cases, with insight from other experts, lawyers and students who have been presented with these agreements. Here’s a link to that story: LINK

Here’s a link to the letter, written by Equal Rights Advocates and attorney Laura Dunn, and was sent to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights:  LINK

This episode was written and produced by host Sara Ganim, with additional research and reporting by Brittany Suszan and Brett Posner-Ferdman. This episode was edited by Amy Fu. The theme music for Why Don’t We Know was composed by Pete Readman. Audio mixing was done by James Sullivan.