From Academia to the Center of a Supreme Court Confirmation: A Profile Of Christine Blasey Ford

This article presents whole story of how academic Christine Blasey Ford's life turned upside down when she went forward with her testimony on with her allegation that Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, sexually assaulted her almost three decades ago. They were high school students in the suburbs of the capital back then.    

Prior to going forward with her claim Ford was quizzical towards her best friend, Catherine Piwowarski. As this article puts it:

Over their years of friendship — as roommates, bridesmaids and parents on opposite coasts — Dr. Blasey wanted to know, had she ever confided that she had been sexually assaulted in high school?No, Ms. Piwowarski said she texted back, she would have remembered that, and was everything O.K.? Dr. Blasey didn’t want to speak in detail quite yet, her friend recalled her responding. “I don’t know why she was asking that or what it ultimately meant or didn’t mean,” Ms. Piwowarski said in an interview, but she remembers thinking that the question betrayed deep turmoil.

This was about a month before Dr. Blasey, a research psychologist, came forward with her allegations.

Rest is history-or maybe not so much so...

Regardless of the fact whether one has a strong career background; sexual abuse claims may not receive much credit. And the one who comes forward with the claims may become the one whose world turns upside down.

Regardless of the fact that Professor Ford became celebrated by activists and celebrities with the viral video "Dear Professor Ford"; still, she was the one who had to suffer so far.

"What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep," Kavanaugh himself joked during a 2015 speech.

All these debates are caught in between the political polarization cleavages; just as anywhere else in the world. But still, sexual abuse is a universal problem and it is "Dear Professor Ford" anywhere else-regardless of place.