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Jodi Shaw vs. Smith College: A Hero’s Journey

Sienna Mae Heath
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11 min readNov 8, 2021

Headshot courtesy of Jodi Shaw. (with permission)

Jodi Shaw is blowing the whistle on the racially hostile environment at Smith College. Watch our full interview below (Part 1 of my new podcast “Leaving the Left For Liberty”) to hear more of her thoughts on what makes a hero, choosing freedom over comfort, the tension between individualism and collectivism through the implementation of critical race theory, the transformative power of art to transcend material reality and create a spiritual reality, what JFK said in the wake of Robert Frost, and her path of finding God through music.

The Hero’s Journey of Jodi Shaw

The dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seems, to many, a far cry from the mainstream approach to racial healing. It’s no secret that much of the implementation of critical race theory is controversial. It has become common knowledge, even to the most hardheaded social justice warriors, that people of different races and ethnicities have substantiated concerns about judging a person based on the color of their skin and leaving out that part about the content of their character.

Jodi Shaw is one of many concerned American citizens, but is one of relatively few who are brave enough to speak up. Also, she is…

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Sienna Mae Heath
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Written by Sienna Mae Heath

Cocreating a More Beautiful World. Moving to Substack: siennamaeheath.substack.com. More at siennamaeheath.com.

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