Taran Samarth
Research
Public work
CV
Vault
Currently listening to
Op-Eds
- On university boards of trustees and student intervention (with Nora Van Horn in Teen Vogue, 2023)
- On Pennsylvania’s open record laws and state universities (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2023)
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On reforming political appointments to Penn State’s board of trustees (with Nora Van Horn in the Penn Capital-Star, 2023)
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On queer studies and safety at Penn State (with 16 queer and trans students in the Centre Daily Times, 2022)
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On Penn State trustees’ illegal secret meetings and decisions (with Nora Van Horn in the Daily Collegian, 2022)
Reports
Campaign Finance on Penn State’s Board of Trustees (analyzing the political contributions of the University’s trustees from 2010 to mid-2022, assembled in July 2022)
Software and Data
SEC Private Fund-Firm Manager Database (in-development tool to link investment limited partnership names to firms, originally built to assist organizers challenging university investments in genocide and militarism)
Open records
- Penn State trustees’ “American exceptionalism” report and transparency at the university (May 2023)
- Yale police department emails from April 2024 on response to student protests (August 2024)
- State College, PA police emails on police response to Proud Boys speaking event and surveillance of student organizers (January 2023—part 1, part 2)
- PA Agriculture secretary’s emails to and from Penn State trustees and presidents between 2015-2022 (August 2022)