The Jefferson Council, Common Sense Society, and Burke Society chapter at UVA hosted a night of discussion with Heather Mac Donald, author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
About the Speaker
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Her work has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race relations. Her writing has appeared on top tier outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times.
A nonpracticing lawyer, Mac Donald clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a volunteer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. She has frequently testified before US House and Senate Committees. In 1998, Mac Donald was appointed to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s task force on the City University of New York. She has received numerous awards for her writing.
A frequent guest on Fox News and other TV and radio programs, Mac Donald holds a BA in English from Yale University, graduating with a Mellon Fellowship to Cambridge University, where she earned an MA in English and studied in Italy through a Clare College study grant. She holds a JD from Stanford University Law School.