On Monday, February 21st, our group had the honor of interviewing Gloria Allred. Gloria Allred is an attorney known for the large part for taking notable and a lot of the time controversial cases. Gloria currently lives in California, so we had to Zoom with her. Before our interview, we watched a documentary made about Gloria, called Seeing Allred. It gave us a lot of interesting information about Gloria Allred, and about our topic in general. Although it was really interesting and informative, I do kind of regret watching it because during the interview it felt like we were just hearing what we already knew from the documentary. Despite this, I still really enjoyed and appreciated the interview.

In our interview, Gloria told us about her experience representing a majority of the women in the Bill Cosby case. Basically, this case is about a former television star who was convicted of sexual assault. Cosby was accused of rape, drug facilitated sexual assault, child sexual assault, and a few other charges by approximately 60 women. Gloria Allred represented 33 of the 60 alleged victims. Overall, interviewing Gloria Allred was an absolutely incredible opportunity. I am so thankful we got to do it because she is such an amazing woman who I now kind of look up to. In addition to her stylish pantsuit, she was such a cool person to talk to and I am so grateful!

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My group and I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Kevin Samuelson who is the CEO of Infor and his Executive Assistant Laurie Forbes. We interviewed them on this topic because Infor recently had a sexual harassment case inside of their office. Kevin Samuelson and Laurie Forbes were very helpful because they helped us get not only a better understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace but why it happens.

During our interview we found out that in most cases of sexual harassment in the workplace it is a higher/more superior member harassing a new or a lower member. While we couldn’t ask very many questions about the case that took place at their office, we asked what we could. For me personally, I learned so much more and it was so much fun going into an office were we got to interview people about our topic. It was super interesting to get two people in the workplace’s opinions as well as new information. I am forever grateful to Kevin Samuelson and Laurie Forbes for allowing my group and I to interview them on this subject.

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Last week in school my group presented their social justice project presentation 101. This was our first attempt at sharing initial research with our peers. I wasn’t very nervous at all because I did my reading and had worked on the slides. This was my personal reaction in our slideshow, “The statistics that were shown don’t shock or surprise me because I have been catcalled numerous times, was groped in front of my mom, and etc. I have never been more excited to work on project and my group is amazing.”

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