Olivia Tucker
Staff Reporter
@oliviahtucker | olivia.tucker@yale.edu
Olivia Tucker covered student policy & affairs as a beat reporter in 2021-22. She previously served as an associate editor of the Yale Daily News Magazine and covered gender equity and diversity. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a senior in Davenport College majoring in English.
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JULIA BIALEK & OLIVIA TUCKER
Cory Booker LAW ’97 drops out of Democratic race

Sen. Cory Booker LAW ’97, D-N.J., dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Monday morning after his campaign failed to gain widespread support. Booker […]

January 14, 2020

OLIVIA TUCKER
SOM receives largest-ever donation

The Yale School of Management has received a $100 million donation from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation — the largest gift in the school’s […]

December 6, 2019

OLIVIA TUCKER
Kentucky professor wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Yale’s Frederick Douglass Book Prize is the most recent award Amy Murrell Taylor has won this year for her 2018 book, which tells the stories […]

November 21, 2019

OLIVIA TUCKER
Yale responds to Veterans Day protest

When Army veteran Jake Fischer ’20 walked across Cross Campus on Veterans Day last week, he noticed latex gloves covered in red paint strewn across […]

November 18, 2019

Evan Gordon
LUCY WILKINS, WESLEY DAY, JAZMIN LOPEZ & OLIVIA TUCKER
YTV Exclusive: Cristian Padilla Romero on ICE’s attempts to deport his mother

Cristian Padilla Romero GRD ’24 explains his mother’s situation in an ICE detention center. ICE attempted to deport Tania Romero, a cancer survivor, on Nov. […]

November 15, 2019

EMMETT SHELL & OLIVIA TUCKER
Supreme Court denies motion to block Sandy Hook lawsuit

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied gun manufacturing company Remington Arms’ motion to block a lawsuit brought against them by families of victims of the […]

November 14, 2019

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JOHN BESCHE & OLIVIA TUCKER
ICE attempts to deport student’s mother

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers removed Tania Romero from the Irwin County Detention Center in southern Georgia early Monday morning in an attempt to deport […]

November 11, 2019

JOHN BESCHE & OLIVIA TUCKER
ICE plans to deport mother, student says

Less than two weeks after Cristian Padilla Romero GRD ’24 started an online petition to have his mother released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

November 11, 2019

OLIVIA TUCKER
Students protest street preacher

A confrontation between student activists and a street preacher yelling offensive slurs last week tested whether Yale’s campus truly protects all speech — even homophobic, […]

November 5, 2019

OLIVIA TUCKER
Another Saybrook break-in raises concerns

A female student encountered an intruder in her Saybrook College suite on Friday evening — marking the fourth trespassing incident to strike the residential college […]

November 3, 2019

JOHN BESCHE & OLIVIA TUCKER
Student petitions ICE to release mother

On a Thursday morning in mid-August, Tania Romero was pulled over for a traffic violation in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The next night, the 48-year old […]

October 31, 2019