{"id":1942609,"date":"2023-06-02T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T14:05:19","slug":"ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Lands New Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1942609&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Joins Harvard University as a Senior Leadership Fellow<\/h2>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always loved teaching, and the opportunity to get back to it is something I am really excited about,&#8221; Lightfoot said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned a lot over the past four years, and this gives me an opportunity to share my experiences and perceptions of governing through one of the most challenging chapters in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.), the first mayor in the city to lose reelection in more than 40 years, will join Harvard University as a fellow. Lightfoot will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-has-a-new-job\/\" title=\"Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Lands New Job\">senior leadership fellow teaching<\/a> at Harvard University&#8217;s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her course will be called &#8220;Health Policy and Leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot came in third in the February election, with the other two candidates advancing to a runoff and Brandon Johnson winning the seat. Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2023-election\/results\/chicago-mayor\/\">commanded<\/a> 16.8 percent of the vote in the initial election to Johnson&#8217;s 32.9 percent.<\/p>\n<h3>Teaching COVID-19 Public Health Crisis Management<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll share specifics about the way we managed the COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">public health<\/a> crisis,&#8221; Lightfoot said of her Harvard course. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ark-gop-gov-hutchinson-supports-vaccine-mandates\/\" title=\"Ark. GOP Gov. Hutchinson supports vaccine mandates\">faced immense criticism<\/a> as mayor for her lockdowns and treatment of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>One notable alumni of the fellowship is former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, another Democrat who received criticism for his handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<h3>Managing the Migrant Crisis and Homicide Rate<\/h3>\n<p>Lightfoot spent the end of her term <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-flipped-on-border\/\">managing<\/a> the migrant crisis and criticizing Republicans who sent migrants to her city, which she advertised as a &#8220;sanctuary city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oakland-police-chief-speaks-out-after-city-council-votes-to-defund-police-dept-by-18-4m\/\" title=\"Oakland Police chief speaks out after city council votes to defund police dept. by .4M\">homicide rate skyrocket<\/a> nearly 40 percent since entering office in 2019, watchdog Wirepoints <a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/lori-lightfoot-gets-the-boot-in-murder-capital-chicago-what-does-that-mean-for-mayors-of-other-homicide-hot-spots-wirepoints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot<\/strong> will join Harvard University as a senior leadership fellow.<\/li>\n<li>Her course will be called &#8220;Health Policy and Leadership.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lightfoot will share her experiences and perceptions of governing through one of the most challenging chapters in American history.<\/li>\n<li>She will teach COVID-19 public health crisis management.<\/li>\n<li>Lightfoot spent the end of her term managing the migrant crisis and criticizing Republicans who sent migrants to her city.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-crime-soars-democratic-voters-turn-on-left-wing-prosecutors\/\" title=\"As Crime Soars, Democratic Voters Turn on Left-Wing Prosecutors\">homicide rate skyrocketed<\/a> nearly 40 percent since she entered office in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>been passionate about public service and I&#8217;m excited to share my experiences and insights with the next generation of leaders,&#8221; said Lightfoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1942610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4387,7819,11279,15699,16495,4602],"class_list":["post-1942609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-chicago","tag-job","tag-lands","tag-lightfoot","tag-lori","tag-mayor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}