Christine Blasey Ford | |
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Born | Christine Margaret Blasey November 1966 (age 58) |
Education | |
Occupation | College professor |
Spouse |
Russell Ford (m. 2002) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Bridgit Mendler (niece) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Measuring young children's coping responses to interpersonal conflict (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Michael D. Newcomb[1] |
Christine Margaret Blasey Ford (/ˈblɑːzi/ BLAH-zee;[2] born November 1966)[3] is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.[4] She specializes in designing statistical models for research projects.[5] During her academic career, Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program.[6]
In September 2018, Ford claimed that then-U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in Bethesda, Maryland, when they were teenagers in the summer of 1982.[7] She testified about her allegations during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination later that month.[8]
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