Academic Parity is addressing academic bullying, mobbing, abusive supervision, harassment, and discrimination at their roots to ensure all bright minds can excel and progress.
Together we can make academia a safe and accepting environment for everyone.
What is Academic Parity?
The Academic Parity Movement is a non-profit organization, aiming to uproot academic bullying, discrimination and violence by empowering students, postdocs, and early career academics (including junior faculties) themselves with the tools to defend their most basic rights. Historically, minorities such as women, people of color, and immigrants have been disproportionately devastated by the magnified societal prejudices and pressures that are only exacerbated in the lab environment. Together we must take a stand to make the academic world an equitable, accepting, and safe environment.
Progress.
Keep institutions accountable for ensuring students have safe environments in which to study and grow.
Progress.
Keep institutions accountable for ensuring students have safe environments in which to study and grow.
Support.
Provide a legal pathway for targets to pursue their rights following incidents of discrimination, violence and bullying.
Support.
Provide a legal pathway for targets to pursue their rights following incidents of discrimination, violence and bullying.
Research.
Compile data into a comprehensive base for further research.
Research.
Compile data into a comprehensive base for further research.
Meet our Team
Morteza Mahmoudi, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Precision Health Program at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to coming MSU, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Saya has published related work in media outlets such as the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Vogue Magazine.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Urban Planning from Tufts University and has been named an Emerging Leader by the Trellis Group in recognition of her work scaling early-stage energy technology companies, both as a venture capital investor and in strategy and operations roles.
Sherry Moss, PhD, is currently Professor of Organizational Studies in the School of Business at Wake Forest University. Her research interests include leadership, feedback, abusive supervision, multiple job holding, authenticity and meaningful work. She has also served as the Director of the Full Time MBA Program at Wake Forest and as the Area Chair for the Management Faculty.
Her research has been published in prestigious academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Executive, and Nature. Her most impactful research has been about abusive supervision (bully bosses).