Dianna Thompson and Cynthia Garrett

Advocacy Committee, Families Advocating for Campus Equality

Dianna is a nationally recognized expert on families, stepfamilies, and divorce related issues. She has written columns for or been quoted in hundreds of major newspapers and magazines, including the San Diego Union Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Time Magazine, Redbook, the ABA Journal, Smart Money, Black Enterprise, Insight magazine, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Detroit News, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, the Newark Star Ledger, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Sacramento Bee, the Tulsa World, the Houston Chronicle, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the New York Sun Times, the Chicago Sun Times, the Cincinnati Post, the Seattle Times, and the Associated Press.<br /> <br /> Dianna has made numerous local and national television appearances, including the NBC Today Show, NBC The John Walsh Show, CNN, CNN Financial Network, Fox News Live, Montel Williams, MSNBC, and Court TV's Catherine Crier. She has also made hundreds of radio appearances, including National Public Radio, Radio America, Talk America, ABC Radio, CBS Radio, the Jim Bohannon Show, the Dennis Prager Show, the Lionel Show, the Mike Gallagher Show, the John &amp; Ken Show, the Bill Handel Show, the Jason Lewis Show, the Tom Leykis Show, the Chris Core Show, the BBC, and more. <br /> Dianna also has written articles for or been quoted on hundreds of websites including ABC.com, CBS.com, MSNBC.com, Foxnews.com, WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax.com, RushLimbaugh.com, Townhall.com, Salon.com, Pravda, JewishWorldReview.com, GOPUSA.com, Heritage Foundation, iFeminists.com, CatholicExchange.com, Yahoo.com, and CybercastNewsService.com. <br /> <br /> The piece is co-written by Cynthia P. Garrett, Esq., who is an attorney in California. Garrett earned her Juris Doctor at the University of San Diego School of Law where she was a published member of the Law Review and graduated Summa Cum Laude, and her undergraduate degree from Rollins College in Florida, where she graduated with Highest Distinction. Garrett became involved with Families Advocating for Campus Equality after learning about college students facing biased disciplinary panels and arbitrary expulsion based on expansive definitions of sexual assault and requiring only the lowest possible standard of proof. Since becoming aware of this issue, Garrett has lobbied against both California’s affirmative consent law and similar federal laws and regulations, has been quoted in articles on the subject, and written articles on lawsuits filed by young students claiming to have been falsely accused.