PO Box 491

Keansburg, NJ 07734

August 28, 2020

President Jonathan Holloway

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
7 College Avenue, 2nd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

RE: Follow up to the letter we wrote dated March 11, 2020 regarding workplace reform

Dear President Jonathan Holloway,

Welcome to Rutgers University.

Below is our follow up letter to the letter we wrote to your predecessor Robert Barchi and Governor Phil Murphy.
We are hopeful that you will see the validity of our concerns and know our goal is to assist in making Rutgers the
model institution for racial equality in several areas, and particularly in the workplace.

We believe allowing us to play a role in helping to make Rutgers University the model institution for racial equality
for Women, African Americans and other people of color will help with the healing process.

President Holloway, we will appreciate hearing back from you regarding this critical matter especially since we have
not received a response to the letter dated March 11, 2020. The time is now for Rutgers to right their wrongs.

We thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Respectfully,

Elanor Bullock

Lisa S. Scott

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Dear President Jonathan Holloway,

As mentioned in our first letter we are the alliance of alumna, alumni, employees, and former employees of Rutgers
University. We are following up on the workplace reform letter we wrote to you on March 11, 2020. As a group we
believe that injunctive relief is extremely important in accomplishing the eradication of the cultural and racial
discrimination, sexual harassment, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace at Rutgers University.

Systemic and institutional racism has proven again to be a horrible disease that is destroying our nation. The torture
and murder of Mr. George Perry Floyd is rocking all of us today. It was a disgrace to all mankind and the epitome
of the abuse of power and white privilege. While it is not possible to compare the loss of a life, to the slow and
painful demise Black people experience in the workplace due to racial discrimination, it is parallel.

Again we are seeking a discussion with you to address the unavoidable and inevitable truths of systemic,
institutional racism and discrimination in our institutions, colleges, universities, particularly and shamefully at

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Rutgers University. These acts are privately painful and publicly humiliating, making it impossible to have a career
at Rutgers without sufferance. We believe the existence of this horrific ideology in a prominent institution such as
Rutgers University, must change now.

As you know Rutgers University was built on the backs of Blacks and like many slaves among the slave ship Wolf
whose bodies littered the Atlantic Ocean. They had succumbed to the vessels diseased environment while the
remaining were auctioned off for sale by Phillip Livingston, a founder of Queens College. We too are suffering and
many of us have succumb to the horrific disease of racism. African American Rutgers employees have suffered long
enough from the loss of their jobs due to speaking up. This also has a CHILLING AFFECT on current employees
who are not speaking up out of fear of losing their jobs. Unlike our ancestors who were bought and sold our silence
is not for sale.

We are seeking to partner with you to fulfill the task to:

 Survey African American employees to seek recommendations on how to improve their working conditions
 Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the current steps Rutgers University is taking to prevent workplace
harassment, racial and cultural discrimination
 Develop proactive and more conclusive trainings through a lens of equity, inclusion, and diversity.
 Analyze past and pending lawsuits against Rutgers to ensure this is not repeated
 Provide full protection for the Conscientious Employee Protection Act
 Call in an outside entity to conduct a thorough investigation on how the Office of Employment Equity at
Rutgers University investigates and renders their decisions on past and current employee complaints and
make necessary changes accordingly.
 Ensure an open door non retaliatory policy for employees to speak up and out
 Provide an insurance policy to protect an employee’s salary, health insurance, pension and seniority should
they be fired and or laid off after filing an internal and or external complaint against Rutgers and or its
entities
Rutgers University can become a national model for equality in the workplace. We will not rest until that change
has come and the GOAL of promoting equity has been achieved.

We would like to speak with you as soon as possible by video conference or voice conference to discuss how we can
become instrumental in moving this agenda forward. Does September 2, 2020 at 11am work for you?

Please contact us at endinequalityatrutgers@gmail.com or by phone at 917.770.1039 or 732.895.5960 to schedule

accordingly and confirm receipt of this letter.

Please note, we are currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Rutgers University and do not wish to discuss our cases
but rather stick to the proposed agenda outlined above.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Respectfully,

__________________________ _____________________________

Lisa Scott, MLER Eleanor Castillo Bullock, MLS, MPA

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Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church
Bonnie Watson Coleman, U.S. Representative
Bob Maken, USA Today
Bob Menendez, U.S. Senator
Bob Smith, U.S. Senator
Bruce Morgan, President, NAACP
Corey Booker, U.S. Senator
Derrick Johnson, President and CEO, NAACP
Frank Pallone, U.S. Congressman
Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO, National Women's Law Center
Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General
J. Philippe Abraham, National Vice President, AFT
James F. Dougherty, Chair, Rutgers Board of Trustees
Joe Biden, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Jonathan Holloway, President, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Karen Bass, U.S. Representative
Larry Hamm, President, Peoples Organization for Progress
Loretta Weinberg, U.S. Senator
Loryn M. Lawson, ESQ
Lucye Miillerand, Executive Vice President, URA AFT
Mark A. Angelson, Chair of Rutgers University Board of Governors
Michael Bloomberg, Former Mayor of New York
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor Rutgers University – Newark
Office of the Chancellor Rutgers University–Camden
Oprah Winfrey, President and Owner of OWN Network
Randi Weingarten, National President, American Federation of Teachers
Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network
Reverend Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr., First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens
Reverend. Dr. Kenneth L. Saunders
Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, Dept. of Labor Workforce Development
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
Rebecca Bond, Chief, US Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division
Reverend. Dr. Juanita Pierre Louis
Sheila Oliver, Lt. Governor
Tonya Veasey, President and CEO Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Woopie Goldberg, ABC Television ‘The View’
Yvette Sterling Esq.
Zakiya Smith Ellis, Secretary of Higher Education