Most of all, the union said, “we request that the district clearly outline the meaningful steps they plan on taking to protect our members and support them.” The Latino Faculty and Staff Association of the North Orange County Community College District said in a similar statement that it stands “in solidarity with all those in support of all our faculty and in protecting their academic freedom and right to feel they are in a safe work environment, free of hostility and threats to their emotional well-being and physical safety.” Faryha Salim, the adjunct instructor of communication at the center of the controversy, said in her own statement that “the district has failed to protect me and allowed racialized and gendered attacks against me.”