Politico: Epstein files revive clash over Trump’s college sexual misconduct rule

April 16. 2026

Executive Director Noreen Farrell is featured in a Politico article exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s support of the Trump Administration’s Title IX changes, including helping to cover up a professor’s sexual misconduct against his students.

“The emails really offered what was a very rare thing in public life: a paper trail showing exactly how men with power talk about the laws designed to hold them accountable,” said Noreen Farrell, executive director of Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit women’s rights organization.

The public attention to the Epstein files “is a powerful cultural zeitgeist on the broader issue of sex abuse that I think we should leverage in this moment as we approach rulemaking,” Farrell said.

Read the article.