Sey was pushed out at Levi-Strauss last year after she spoke up against public-school closures in San Francisco.

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Independent Women’s Forum is pleased to announce that Jennifer Sey, a former national gymnastics champion who made headlines last year when she was pushed out of Levi-Strauss for speaking up against public school closings in San Francisco, is the latest entry in our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .

When people meet Sey, who was global brand president at Levi Strauss & Co., they always want to know: So, what’s it like to walk away from a million-dollar severance package? Sey says she could not have taken the lucrative package because it would have meant that she could not have spoken up about her experiences in a woke corporation.

We are all lucky that Sey did not take the money and run: she was strategically placed to give us the inside story on what has been called “woke capitalism” (the term was coined by conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat). She wrote a memoir about her ordeal, and the title of her book didn’t soft-pedal what happened to her. Levi’s Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob That Took My Job but Gave Me My Voice is the title of Sey’s book, which was published in November by All Seasons Press, a small, non-traditional publisher.

“What I tell people is you have to stand up to it because I think common sense will prevail,” Sey says. “It’s a scary challenge to stand apart from the group, but I think if you do it, you’ll find there’s more of us than of them. There are more people who believe in the normal, and not in the crazy, as Sarah Huckabee Sanders put it in her rebuttal to the State of the Union. There are more of us that believe in common sense and believe in truth. You don’t have to do what I did. You don’t have to blow up your life and lose your job, but you have to challenge the lies.”

This is not the first time Sey has spoken out against injustices. She originally rose to fame as a champion gymnast and is the author of Chalked-Up: My Life in Elite Gymnastics, which blows the whistle on the physical and emotional abuse in the world of elite athletics. She is married, the mother of four, and recently forsook San Francisco to settle in Denver. Her kids go to public school.

Although an extra million might come in handy, Jennifer Sey is giving her kids and all of us something just as beneficial—a lesson in courage, and that’s something even a million dollars can’t buy.

We know you will enjoy meeting this courageous lady.
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Charlotte Hays
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