The senior policy adviser for 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a Ph.D. from Fordham University and $180,000 in student loan debt.
“I am $180k in debt. I have a PHD and am a tenured professor — my students are in the same boat, sinking in debt. I pay $1100/month in student loan debt, half of my rent. We MUST #CancelStudentDebt. Wall St got bailed out, what about us?!” Heather Gautney tweeted Monday.
I am $180k in debt. I have a PHD and am a tenured professor — my students are in the same boat, sinking in debt. I pay $1100/month in student loan debt, half of my rent. We MUST #CancelStudentDebt. Wall St got bailed out, what about us?! #bernie2020 @BernieSanders
— Heather Gautney (@HeatherGautney) June 24, 2019
In addition to her position as a senior policy adviser to the Vermont senator’s presidential campaign, Gautney was also a senior policy adviser to Sanders in the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, according to her publisher’s website.
Additionally, Gautney teaches as an associate professor of sociology at Fordham, according to the university’s website.
A report from Fordham University in 2015-2016 listed the minimum salary for an associate professor at the school at $83,735 and the average at $114,900. Average fringe benefits net professors another $42,300.
Sanders made news this week by proposing a plan to cancel all federal student loan debt, which would rack up to more than $1.6 trillion.
Cancel all of it. https://t.co/0gyMBUEhgX
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 25, 2019
