Hear from Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as she discusses her new book, Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has proudly represented New York’s 21st Congressional District for six terms and currently serves as Chairwoman of House Republican Leadership. At the time of her first election, Elise made history as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. A native Upstate New Yorker, Elise consistently and overwhelmingly won her re-election campaigns, often by the largest margin of any Republican in the Northeast.
For over a decade, she has served on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Congresswoman Stefanik is widely recognized as one of the most effective questioners in Congressional hearings. She was featured on TIME’s 100 List as one of the most influential leaders in the world and is frequently named on the Most Powerful Women in Washington List by Washingtonian magazine.
Drawing on her experience in House committee hearings where she gained national attention for holding Ivy League university presidents’ feet to the fire, Elise continues to expose the failures of American higher education and the reckoning facing elite universities in her first book, Poisoned Ivies, set for release this April.
A Harvard alumna herself, Elise lit the fuse when she posed simple, moral questions to the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, most notably asking whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate their universities’ rules on bullying and harassment. Their inability to answer with clarity or conviction sparked a national earthquake in academia, ultimately triggering the resignations of multiple Ivy League presidents. This “hearing heard ’round the world” became the most-watched congressional proceeding of all time, garnering more than a billion views in just one week.
All tickets include a signed copy of Poisoned Ivies.
