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Julie Cruse

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Julie Cruse is the founder and investigative survivor behind AcademicAbuse.com, a platform that serves as a hub for anonymous reporting, education, and action. She has spent over a decade working across public, private, and elite universities to rethink how educators support students using art- and technology-based pedagogy. Nowadays, she gardens and takes care of feral, stray, and adopted pets. And yes, she still pet sits on the side. The Burn List is her first book.

 

Schedule

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Not Up to You: Women Reckoning with Social Pressure and Systemic Abuse
Julie Cruse, The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education
Sandy Langhart Michelet, My Family Tree Stops with Me: A Guide to Purpose and Possibility
with moderator Lindsay Cronk

3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education

A professor's hand around her throat, and his words, "one way or another, I'll find you," kept her silent.

Shackled with student debt and fleeing her abusive family, Julie Cruse had no defense against a hunter.

So she fled ... her degree first, then her career, then the long, airless years after.

Decades later, tired of running, Cruse has one option left; to put her records in public view: The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education.