‘The Math Is Bad’: Bestselling Latina Author Puts University on Blast for Booting Her

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Bestselling author Erika L. Sánchez took to Instagram to publicly blast Chicago’s DePaul University on Tuesday after she was advised that she would be one of six non-tenure faculty cut from the school in the midst of a $56.6 million deficit—despite its public plan to increase diversity.

“DePaul does not care about its students and faculty of color,” the bestselling author of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter and recent memoir Crying in the Bathroom charged in her post. The author is currently working with movie star America Ferrera on a movie adaptation of her novel.

“What a terrible loss for your students!!” wrote the actress in a comment on Instagram defending the author. “Thanks for speaking truth about the difference between the change institutions say they want and their contradictory actions! It’s exhausting, demoralizing, and enraging. It’s a lot to hold.”