25 Facts About Christine Blasey Ford

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Christine Margaret Blasey Ford is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Christine Blasey Ford specializes in designing statistical models for research projects.

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Christine Blasey Ford testified about her allegations during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.

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Christine Blasey Ford has two brothers, Tom and Ralph III.

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Christine Blasey Ford earned an undergraduate degree in experimental psychology in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Christine Blasey Ford received a master's degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in 1991.

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Christine Blasey Ford has worked in the academic and private sector as a biostatistician and research psychologist.

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Christine Blasey Ford teaches subjects including psychometrics, study methodologies, clinical trials, and statistics to doctoral students and serves on dissertation committees.

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Christine Blasey Ford has performed consulting work for multiple pharmaceutical companies.

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Christine Blasey Ford has collaborated with FDA, academic and industry statisticians, including leading roundtable discussions at the American Statistical Association's Annual FDA-Industry meetings that focus on statistical analyzes in industry-FDA interactions.

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Christine Blasey Ford "specializes in designing statistical models for research projects in order to make sure they come to accurate conclusions", as summarized by Helena Chmura Kraemer, a Stanford professor emeritus in biostatistics who co-authored a book and several articles with Christine Blasey Ford.

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Christine Blasey Ford has written or co-written several books about psychological topics, including depression.

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In early July 2018, after Judge Brett Kavanaugh was reported to be on Donald Trump's shortlist to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Christine Blasey Ford contacted both The Washington Post and her congresswoman, Anna Eshoo.

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Eshoo and Christine Blasey Ford decided to take the matter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, one of Christine Blasey Ford's senators in California and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would deliberate Kavanaugh's nomination.

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Feinstein said that owing to her confidentiality commitment to Christine Blasey Ford, she did not raise the issue in the initial Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings.

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Christine Blasey Ford said that, while his friend Mark Judge watched, Kavanaugh, intoxicated, held her down on a bed with his body, grinding against and groping her, covering her mouth when she tried to scream and trying to pull her clothes off.

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Christine Blasey Ford recounted escaping when Judge jumped on the bed and toppled them.

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The therapist's notes say four boys were involved, which Christine Blasey Ford attributed to an error by the therapist; Christine Blasey Ford said in 2018 that four boys were at the party but only two were involved in the incident.

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Christine Blasey Ford's husband recalled that she had used Kavanaugh's last name in her 2012 description of the incident, and that she said he might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.

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Democratic adviser Ricki Seidman, who helped prepare Anita Hill for her testimony against Clarence Thomas during his 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings, was brought in to personally advise Christine Blasey Ford in navigating a potential hearing.

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The letter additionally noted the significant public support Christine Blasey Ford had received, but severe harassment including death threats, forcing her to leave her home.

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Trump's attacks on Christine Blasey Ford were widely characterized as victim blaming.

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On December 11,2018, Christine Blasey Ford presented the Sports Illustrated "Inspiration of the Year" award to Rachael Denhollander.

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Christine Blasey Ford is the aunt of actress and singer Bridgit Mendler.

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Christine Blasey Ford is a registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations.