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5Q Interview: Carolyn Chalmbers 2022The Writing University hosts the 5Q Interview series with authors from the University of Iowa Press. We sit down with UI Press authors to ask about their work, their process, their reading lists and events. Today we are speaking with Carolyn Chalmers, author of They Don’t Want Her There.
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Talk of IowaOn this episode of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe talks to attorney Carolyn Chalmers about Jew’s landmark case against the University of Iowa and her book: They Didn’t want her There: Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University. After years of enduring sexual, racial and ethnic harassment (keeping her head down and doing her best work) Dr. Jean Jew realized that the slurs and salacious rumors were damaging her career. The University didn’t respond to her complaints, so she sought legal help from Chalmers.