Dr. Tracee Howell, associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, will report Wednesday on the 900-page Project 2025, noting: “It’s urgent for people to know that this is a detailed plan that will impact all of us, no matter our political party, our beliefs, identity, background or status. It’s nothing less than a civic emergency.”

Howell is one of the speakers at People for Kamala, a non-partisan event set for 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lewis Run Firehall.

She has read all 901 pages of this “project” and was stunned by what she read. “I want people to know how utterly comprehensive this project is. It’s not just a plan for presidential ‘transition’ but for governmental takeover, with very severe consequences to our normal, everyday lives.”

Howell, who has been involved in higher education for 30 years in Western New York and now, at Pitt-Bradford, first decided to look into the project after she heard it call for the elimination of the Department of Education. “I’m doing this as an extremely concerned private citizen because I believe in public education, in freedom, and in our democracy,” she said.

The more she studied Project 2025, the angrier she became. She was “all the more determined that people should know what exactly is being planned. Eliminating the Department of Education — and eventually all of public education — is just one of the shocking, extremely radical elements in Project 2025.

Born and raised in Olean, N.Y., Howell was a first-generation college student, one reason she’s such a strong believer in public education — “and especially in ensuring access to higher education for everyone, not just the wealthy and socially privileged. The world of ideas, the history of human endeavor, belong to all of us, to all people — not just those fortunate to be born into generational wealth.”

Howell stressed that her talk Wednesday represents her own beliefs and not those of Pitt-Bradford.

Marty Wilder, Bradford