Catherine Powell (@profcatherine) 's Twitter Profile
Catherine Powell

@profcatherine

Law prof • Obama & Biden White House alum • NAACP LDF alum • Coined “Color of Covid” • RT not endorsements • she/her/ella/elle

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After working in the White House, I returned for an event where Biden reflected on his "proudest legislative accomplishment" ht @WhiteHouseGPC Jennifer Klein Rachel Vogelstein on.cfr.org/4drj17h via Council on Foreign Relations

Annette Gordon-Reed (@agordonreed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Of course, now that there is a critical mass of Black people who have kids who could be legacies … Generational inequity strikes again.

Dorothy Roberts (@dorothyeroberts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m so honored to be among the remarkable 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellows and grateful for the spotlight I hope this award will shine on Black women’s visions & struggles for reproductive & family justice. #MacFellow 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

CFR Women & Foreign Policy (@cfr_wfp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Read Fellow Catherine Powell's reflections on the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to address gender-based violence after working as the White House's chief advisor on gender-based violence. Read the full post here: cfr.org/blog/white-hou…

Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) (@profmmurray) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is huge. When my mom was suffering from Alzheimer's, sorting out care for her was so difficult, heart-wrenching, and expensive. The need for eldercare is skyrocketing. This proposal would be an enormous assist to families (daughters) who are called on to shoulder this work.

Malala Yousafzai (@malala) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exactly 12 years ago today, a Taliban gunman pointed his gun at my head and shot me for daring to speak up for girls’ right to go to school. I want to thank every person for your solidarity and support, from praying for my recovery to helping me in my work for girls’ access to

Exactly 12 years ago today, a Taliban gunman pointed his gun at my head and shot me for daring to speak up for girls’ right to go to school.

I want to thank every person for your solidarity and support, from praying for my recovery to helping me in my work for girls’ access to
Karima Bennoune (@karimabennoune) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I salute #CharlotteBunch today on her 80th birthday Her leadership on women's #HumanRights, vision of global feminist networks, work to ensure diverse #women heard at Vienna & Beijing conferences - FOUNDATIONAL The fight for women's #HumanRights today owes so much to her 👇

Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I realize we did this all in 2020, but once again, a reminder that some states are barred, by their own state laws, from tabulating votes until after polls have closed on Election Day. Those laws may be stupid, but the delays they produce are inevitable—and not evidence of fraud.

Alex Wagner Tonight (@wagnertonight) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"I think what we're finding is that the presence of those ballot initiatives actually gave some subset of women voters a permission structure that allowed them to go into the ballot booth and vote their interests on securing abortion rights and then pivot..." - Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵)

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We are pleased to announce that the CSLS Visiting Scholar application period for the 2025-26 Academic year has been extended. Applications are now due by January 8, 2025, submitted via e-mail at [email protected]. For full details, please visit csls.berkeley.edu/opportunities/…

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Calls to formally recognize gender apartheid as a crime against humanity increase amidst growing edicts targeting the freedoms of women and girls by the Taliban, write Catherine Powell and Noël James. cfr.org/blog/malala-yo…

Michele Goodwin (@michelebgoodwin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘We’re Still in an Anti-Vax Era’: Dr. Fauci on Battling Anti-Science Sentiment in a Divided America msmagazine.com/2025/01/14/dr-… via @msmagazine

Just Security (@just_security) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While you were sleeping, a federal judge issued an emergency TRO (1) blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury systems (2) requires DOGE to "immediately destroy" any material already downloaded Case brought by attorneys general of 19 states on Thursday. justsecurity.org/107087/tracker…

Steve Inskeep (@nprinskeep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

American veteran, fired from FEMA, to WTOP: “I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting. We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.” Before you react, a few points. 1/

Samuel Moyn 🔭 (@samuelmoyn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“I dream of a world of which it will not be said that its commitment to human rights was its last utopia.” -Pope Francis, with one small modification from me