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Equity ‘Leadership Coach’ Blasts Federalist Intern For Writing Accurate, Unflattering Article

Chrissy Clark
Equity ‘Leadership Coach’ Blasts Federalist Intern For Writing Accurate, Unflattering Article
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An equity “leadership coach” is using her social media platform to go after an intern at a right-leaning media outlet after he wrote an unflattering, though factually accurate, article on her diversity training. 

Dena Simmons is the founder of LiberatED, an equity consortium focused on “social and emotional learning, racial justice, and healing” in schools. On February 26, Simmons addressed a Chicago-area school district as the keynote speaker for its diversity training. She reportedly told administrators in Naperville District 203 schools that Americans are “spiritually murdering” black students. 

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