Tabassum Tamanna, a graduate student-employee in the Pathobiology program at Brown University, was sexually harassed and assaulted by another University employee while working in the Robert W. Sobol laboratory at Brown.
Brown’s Title IX office delayed her case for nine months before ultimately dismissing it, only because the University declined to re-hire her assailant. Now, as Tabassum continues to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, and is also expecting to give birth in April, admin refuses to provide the support she will need to continue in her program.
Tabassum is not responsible for having been assaulted at work, nor is she responsible for Brown’s Title IX office excessively delaying her case and exacerbating the trauma she experienced from her assault. Sign the petition to demand that Brown support Tabassum through the Spring and Summer terms.