Katie Rader

Guest Column by eight GET-UP members | Calling on Penn to protect graduate and professional students

By Katie Rader , Elizabeth Bynum , Audrey Jaquiss , Rebecca Naegele , Gabriel Salgado , Sam Samore , Helen Stuhr-Rommereim and Naomi Zucker · May 8, 2020

In this time, we graduate student-workers at Penn find ourselves wishing more than ever that we had a union to represent us in ongoing campus-wide conversations that affect all our futures.

Guest Column by Katie Rader | What Do Penn’s Austerity Measures Mean?

By Katie Rader · April 27, 2020

While Penn’s focus on continuing to support staff under $70,000 is commendable, this is truly a moment for the Board of Trustees and the Penn administration to be more transparent about why fiscal austerity is falling on the backs of their employees and students.

Guest Column | GET-UP committee speaks out on proposed sexual harassment policy

By Katie Rader and Mark Lewis · Oct. 27, 2018

When deans, department chairs, and peers of the accused are given the power to investigate sexual misconduct, allegations are often swept under the rug.