@SecSmithEllis

fmr Chief Policy Advisor to @GovMurphy and Secretary of Higher Education for @NJGov, Obama alum, wife, girl mom

 Atlanta, GA
Joined December 2012
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Saturday morning reminder that while many of us may make this work look easy, itā€™s not. Itā€™s day in and day out of grind, inch by inch progress, sometimes working for no progress, and often if not always seems impossible until itā€™s done (Madiba taught us). Donā€™t be discouraged.
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Preston Cooper@PrestonCooper93Oct 12
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"She said that, essentially, they wanted to be able to extract as much from students as they could and any commitment that impinged on that flexibility was one she couldnā€™t make. "I realized at that point, that some peopleā€¦ just donā€™t want to make college affordable."
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If you think peopleā€™s writing with AI is bad, you should see their writing without it. šŸ„“šŸ˜¬
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Posted a reel this week that seems to have struck a nerve: ā€œIf youā€™re bad at managing people, youā€™ll probably also be bad at managing AI.ā€ Decided to write the longer version. open.substack.com/pub/zakiyaā€¦
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The policy platform won the election. Now you have to make it real. Implementation is the difference between lives changed and expensive theater. My latest, on the importance of policy implementation: zakiyaellis.substack.com/p/oā€¦
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Iā€™ve been silent on this platform for a whileā€¦but if anyone is still looking for my thoughts, find them here: zakiyaellis.substack.com
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Anyone else notice that the passport appointment website is down since at least yesterday?
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I need us to stop talking about economic policy as if capitalism in America has ever been disconnected from White Supremacy. #makeitmakesense
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OBVIOUSLY we should be concerned about peopleā€™s very real economic fears. Yet to act as if those fears are isolated from peopleā€™s consideration of social status and RACE is just bonkers. Bananas.
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Billy Derrick@billyderrick105 Oct 2024
NO WAY #Vandy played this quote from Nick Saban after the upset over Alabama: ā€œThe only place thatā€™s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.ā€
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Want to make sure @ajc @nytimes and @washingtonpost see this. Please DM me if you want more info.
Dr. Zakiya Smith Ellis@SecSmithEllis4 Oct 2024
Voter suppression is real. A family member moved back to GA. They registered to vote when they got their new license. After a while, they realized they hadnā€™t received anything in the mail, and called to inquire where her voter registration card was 1/
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Voter suppression is real. A family member moved back to GA. They registered to vote when they got their new license. After a while, they realized they hadnā€™t received anything in the mail, and called to inquire where her voter registration card was 1/
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But no matter, no one CALLED or reached out to say we arenā€™t going to register you/we are cancelling your registration THAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR. Had they not followed up to check, they would have never known they werenā€™t registered.5/
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They went twice in person to try to rectify the issue in person at the elections office, and the power was out so they were closed šŸ¤¦šŸ¾ā€ā™€ļø Whether incompetence or suppression, itā€™s disenfranchisement either way. šŸ˜”6/end
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ITā€™S NOT YOUR BUSINESS
Ann Telnaes@AnnTelnaes2 Oct 2024
Vance basically just said Don't worry your pretty little head about that unplanned pregnancy. It's not about options. It's about a woman making her own decisions about her own body.
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Impressive
Preet Bharara
@PreetBharara11 Sep 2024
She hates Israel and also the Arabs
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FACT: Immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens. npr.org/2024/03/08/123710315ā€¦
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The weave
Josh Schwerin@JoshSchwerin11 Sep 2024
WHAT IS TRUMP TALKING ABOUT????
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