“You’re going to have to be defending people, sometimes publicly, for saying stuff that you find abhorrent and that you hate. But that’s the gig.” says Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at FIRE, on this week’s episode of The Syllabus. Mark Oppenheimer digs deep with free speech defender extraordinaire Alex Morey, as they discuss the chilling effect of fear and censorship on college campuses—and what the law really has to say.

Guest Bio: Alex Morey is an attorney and a journalist who leads FIRE’s Campus Rights Advocacy program, a team of attorneys and advocates. Morey is a member of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. She has a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and has trained at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She attended the University of Arizona in her hometown of Tucson, majoring in journalism and French and graduating with honors. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar, where she taught English in rural, underserved schools.

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