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Jessica Quiason

Jessica is a strategic researcher who feels empowered when she can elucidate systems of The use of violence, intimidation, surveillance, and discrimination, particularly by the state and/or its civilian allies, to control populations or particular sections of a population. Learn more in order to upend them. She is a former research fellow with PRA. She is proud to have worked alongside labor unions, environmental justice organizations, and community organizations in Massachusetts, New York, and California supporting organizing campaigns and progressive political reform at city and state levels. She also finds joy when she can cook for others as a means of fostering community and solidarity.

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Political Research Associates
How the Pioneer Institute Co-opts the Concept of Social Justice
This report demonstrates how three of the Pioneer Institute’s leading claims that their education reforms create greater equity in schools are not only unfounded but that these reforms disproportionately harm communities of color & immigrant communities.
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Political Research Associates
The Privatization Strategy of Pioneer Institute and Betsy Devos
Pioneer Institute bills itself as an “independent,” “non-partisan” think tank, but a closer look tells a different story.
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Political Research Associates
Pioneer Institute Lawyers-Up with Janus
Since PRA’s 2016 report on Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute has taken on public sector unions not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country.
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