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Nancy Hogshead-Makar
CEO ; Civil Rights Lawyer, Using sport as a vehicle for social change in the world. 3x Olympic Champ in Swimming (3Au!)
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Marc Edelman 3h
Excellent op-ed by . I also want to add Olympic athlete unions to the list of partial solutions as an important way to balance the power dynamic.
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NYT Opinion 16h
Michigan State will pay half a billion dollars to Larry Nassar's victims. But more needs to be done.
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Dani Bostick 16h
Must-read by : The movement means "changing the systems and cultures that breed sexual harassment and abuse in the first place." Michigan State Will Pay $500 Million to Abuse Victims. What Comes Next?
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The Fearless Coach 16h
$500 million to 332 victims will be paid by . That number will never be enough but find out what’s next in the OP-ED by superhero advocate
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Minky Worden 15h
Next week House+Senate hold overdue hearings on sexual abuse in movement—which should be “the beginning of real+permanent change for athletes” Olympic gold medalist and rights lawyer writes in important oped:
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar 14h
Replying to @TeamUSA @NWSL and 3 others
“The US Olympic Committee needs to invert those priorities; it must aspire to become the best-run nonprofit in America, in service to the country and our athletes." 4/ Thx !
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar 14h
“To change this, the United States Olympic Committee has to change its approach to sports. Too often its staff usurps the prestige of the Olympic movement for itself, while treating the athletes as fungible commodities.” 3/
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar 14h
....”Instead of thinking about how to protect athletes, we need to ask how to give them power. Too often, coaches and other authority figures hold all the cards; athletes who speak up risk getting cut from the team.” 2/
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar 14h
🙋🏼‍♀️My Op-Ed! "The $500M MSU settlement, and the , are important, but change cannot stop there. is just one symptom of the athlete’s lack of power within the Olympic movement. 1/
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Sports Law Chat 16h
The latest Sports Law Chat Weekly! Thanks to
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Liriel Higa 18h
However badly we think behaved, at least it recognized that it has a duty to protect its students from sexual abuse and violence, and it eventually acted. Not true for the United States Olympic Committee, says .
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Mary V. Harvey 17h
Powerful Op-Ed by Michigan State Will Pay $500 Million to Abuse Victims. What Comes Next? via
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Dani Bostick May 17
I wore an "I'm OK" mask throughout my childhood, hiding the traumatic impact of sexual abuse. Here is why we need to talk about childhood trauma.
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Gretchen Carlson May 17
This is crazy. is lobbying against our bill. As is -do u not support women having a choice & a voice? America needs to know this.Thx for leading the way. SenGillibrand
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar Apr 28
Thank you , for letting me tell my 8-year slog to get similar legal protections from for club and Olympic sport athletes that students () and employees () have long enjoyed.🎯 = 16 million athletes. Thx ❤️
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Tyler Kingkade May 16
That’s not what that is called
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Lindsay Gibbs May 16
I wrote about the most important number in Michigan State's settlement with Nassar victims -- 332 -- and the amount of real change that still needs to happen at the university:
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Brendan Schwab May 11
My article on 'embedding the human rights of players in world sport' is now published online in the International Sports Law Journal - a special edition from last year's excellent conference
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Cherylyn HarleyLeBon May 16
Michigan State to Pay Victims of Larry Nassar Abuse $500 Million via
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Mark Cooper May 16
There should be no doubt that once their lawyers have settled financially, the Army of Survivors will be on the march, demanding structural change at every level of sport.
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