Graham Piro
Graham has worked on FIRE’s Campus Rights Advocacy team since 2021. He currently focuses on defending faculty academic freedom rights as FIRE’s Faculty Legal Defense Fund Fellow. Before joining FIRE, he worked for three years in media, covering higher education, free speech, and politics. Originally from New York, Graham spends most of his free time running, hiking, or arguing about what the best game in baseball history is (Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS). He always welcomes any movie, book, or D.C. coffee shop recommendations.
Recent Writings
- Law professor sues University of Kentucky after suspension over criticizing Israel,
- Institutional neutrality can’t be used to turn students into puppets,
- With help of FIRE, University of Washington professor returns to classroom after bread knife incident,
- UC Irvine is crusading over student doormats — and wiping its feet on the Constitution,
- After brazen attack on expressive rights, faculty at Sterling College aren’t in Kansas anymore,
- University of Wisconsin academic freedom panel back on after effort to disinvite speaker,
- Nassau Community College punishes students, but won’t tell them why,
- University of Hawai‘i dean sues law professor who criticized diversity event,
- James Madison psychology professor cleared of wrongdoing after extensive probe into classroom comments,
- Law professor challenges university after campus ‘shooting’ hypothetical changed in lesson plan,
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