Christine Blasey Ford is a professor and research psychologist at Palo Alto University and the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she teaches statistics, research methods, and psychometrics. She has been widely published, and, according to a book she co-authored, “How Many Subjects? Statistical Power Analysis in Research,” her area of expertise is the interaction between pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Ford earned her degree in experimental psychology in 1988 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master's in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in educational psychology from the University of Southern California. She also holds a master's degree in epidemiology from Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Prior to her work at the Stanford School of Medicine and Palo Alto University, Ford worked as a director of biostatistics at Corcept Therapeutics and as a biostatistical consultant for Titan Pharmaceuticals.

In July 2018, Ford privately came forward with allegations of a sexual attack from then-nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. She contacted both The Washington Post and her congresswoman, Anna Eshoo, and expressed her desire to keep her identity private.

In a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein, Ford detailed how Kavanaugh attacked her at a party in high school, and again requested confidentiality. In September of that year, Feinstein referred Ford's letter to the FBI with Ford’s name redacted, which was then forwarded to the White House as an update to Kavanaugh's background check. The White House in turn sent the letter to the full Senate Judiciary Committee.

Forced to go public with her identity after the media and reporters began to track her down, Ford was then subjected to much of the same treatment Anita Hill experienced for reporting Clarence Thomas for alleged misconduct. Ford received death threats, threats to her family, and consistently had her allegations undermined. After an FBI investigation and several days of public court hearings, Kavanaugh was cleared and the Senate confirmed his nomination by a vote of 50-48.

In 2019, Ford was named one of that year's 100 most influential people in Time, having been nominated by then-Senator Kamala Harris. In August 2022, news broke that the FBI confirmed that the thousands of tips in the Kavanaugh case had never been investigated, leading to questions about the integrity of the FBI’s work.

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