Adrienne N. Spires

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Adrienne N. Spires is CEO of Lapis Analytic Consulting, a Public Voices Fellow on Domestic Violence and Economic Security with The OpEd Project and author of Roaring Resilience: Finding Grit in the Lion’s Den.

July 9, 2025

Mamdani Win Urges Us to Resist American Theocracy

Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory has sparked an Islamophobic backlash in the United States, a country that seems to be moving rapidly toward becoming a theocracy with increasing religious intolerance for anything other than Evangelical Christianity….

February 14, 2025

Call It What It Is: A So-Called Meritocracy Does Not Hide Racism

One of my favorite cartoon characters from childhood is Angelica Pickles from “Rugrats.” She was about three years old and was convinced that her baby cousins, Tommy and Dil, were plotting and planning against her….