Michigan Gov. Whitmer to propose funding free preschool, community college for all detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

It’s a new year with old problems: homelessness, poverty, gender-based violence & immigration are worsening public crises. In my new book: Intersectional Advocacy I show how advocacy groups tackle these issues together in extraordinary ways that give us hope for US democracy.

This is blatant Islamophobia, The Wall Street Journal.

“Yet, although 1 in 4 rural dwellers now identify as POC, research on the rural-urban divide has either mostly centered on the behavior and attitudes of non-Hispanic whites, or assumed that nonwhites have exhibited similar behavior to whites.” Asking “among whom?” matters!

Cornell students successfully defended the Liberated Zone tonight with no suspensions, arrests, or disciplinary violations — solely due to a massive swell of community support that formed three rings around the encampment to defend students into the night.

Last week, I passed my prospectus defense and officially became a PhD candidate! 🥳 So excited for what’s to come next. #ABD

The rural-urban political divide is mostly driven by white voters, and there are fewer divisions over policy than many think write Trevor E. Brown, Gisela Pedroza Jauregui, Suzanne Mettler and Marissa Rivera wp.me/p3I2YF-dXk

Officially defended my dissertation and graduated! So much has gone into this and I wouldn’t be here without the support from my wonderful committee Sabrina Karim, Gustavo Flores-Macías, Bryn Rosenfeld, and Ken Roberts (also a huge thank you to my external reader Alexandra Blackman) ✨

Research from CornellArts&Sciences finds that when it comes to politics, rural and urban white Americans differ greatly in their views, whereas rural Black and Latino Americans differ far less from their urban counterparts. Suzanne Mettler Taylor & Francis Research Insights news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

The rural-urban political divide is mostly driven by white voters, and there are fewer divisions over policy than many think wp.me/p3I2YF-dXk

I am writing a book 📝✨ Coming soon from Lens and Pen Press - Ugly Head urges readers to bear witness and grapple with legacies and modern manifestations of conservation injustice. Ugly Head challenges us to re-learn and to center care in conservation science and practice.

Receiving an award is lovely, but awkward. Having someone talk about you in front of a room full of colleagues will never not be weird to me. Nevertheless, I am grateful that Charley Willison was the one to do it. I was honored by the genuinely kind words she shared tonight.

So now that I’m ABD, do I sit down at my computer…open a google doc…and just start…typing my dissertation???🤯

There is targeted campaign of intimidation and harassment against me from Cornell’s administration and police. I have been suspended again. I had no chance to dispute the charges, nor see the evidence or appeal. They informed me that I am effectively being deported by the weekend

People always ask me, “Marissa, why don’t you work on campus?!” Because I have this waiting for me at home 🥰

The university is subverting their own processes. They will claim it’s not a deportation but effectively it is.

Cornell admin has used a series of dishonest substitutions in making case agnst Momodou ✊🏿. Phrase "any means necessary" stands in use of such means; brushing past police stands in for assault; noise stands in for physical harm; and finally MT stands in for other students.