Professor Pruitt Talks to Washington Post and Shasta Scout, Writes for MinnPost

During a busy media week, Professor Lisa Pruitt spoke to The Washington Post, published an essay in the MinnPost and was quoted in a Shasta Scout article that was picked up by other outlets, including the Daily Yonder.

Pruitt talked to the Post for an Oct. 19 report on shifting trends in COVID-19 death rates. The same day, the MinnPost published Pruitt’s essay headlined “With Plenty of Urban Folks Bashing Rural Folks and Vice Versa, What’s the Goal?” The opinion piece was written in connection with Pruitt’s Oct. 25 Westminster Town Hall Forum (Minneapolis) talk on “Mending the Rural-Urban Rift.”

On Oct. 20, the Daily Yonder published the Shasta Scout story, about how a lack of medical specialists in Shasta County is increasing obstacles to care.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts. She is the recipient of the law school’s 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.

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