May Mailman is a 37-year-old Harvard Law graduate who leads a legal effort to remove perceived liberal bias from colleges and to deter race-based preferences in admissions. She drafted two executive orders at the start of President Trump's second term: one ending race- and sex-based diversity preferences and one declaring U.S. policy recognizes only two immutable sexes. Her work influenced university responses on transgender athletes and resolved an Education Department civil-rights investigation. She negotiated settlements with major institutions, pursued limits on international student enrollment at Harvard, and contributed to agreements restoring research funding after allegations of harassment.
A 37-year old lawyer known for her "ruthless efficiency and engaging personality" is leading the Trump administration's effort to "root out perceived liberal bias from colleges and deter the use of race in admissions," according to a profile in the New York Times. A 2015 graduate of Harvard Law School, May Mailman "is the most important, least-known person behind the administration's relentless pursuit of the nation's premier universities," the article reports. She helped create the policies being used against universities and is leading negotiations with targeted institutions.
Mailman also "had a direct hand" in seeking to ban the enrollment of international students at Harvard University and "closed a $221 million deal" with Columbia University that settled allegations that it failed to stop the harassment of Jewish students, the New York Times says. The Columbia deal led to restoration of its research funding, according to past coverage by the New York Times.
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