Profile of Emily Yoffe

Title IX and the Disempowerment of Women

Emily Yoffe ’77
Nov 14, 2018, 6 PM
Library Lecture Room
Free and open to the public

The talk will focus on how a well-intended policy designed to address sexual misconduct injustices against young women has created a system of injustices against the accused, and undermined women’s agency.

Emily Yoffe ’77 is a contributing editor at the Atlantic and a contributing writer at Highline (part of HuffPost). Prior to joining the Atlantic, she was a longtime contributor to Slate, and was their Dear Prudence advice columnist for a decade. She has written extensively about campus sexual assault and was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in public interest for her Slate story “The College Rape Overcorrection.” Her three-part Atlantic series on campus sexual assault, “The Uncomfortable Truth About Campus Rape Policy,” looked at the issues of due process, junk science, and the disproportionate number of accusations against men of color. She has written about the MeToo movement for Highline and Politico. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the New York Times, O the Oprah Magazine, Texas Monthly, and the Washington Post. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.

Emily Yoffe is generously supported by the Freedom Project.