Whistleblowerhero - Cathy Harris

Cathy Harris Federal Government BIO

Cathy Harris, a former Senior Customs Inspector for the U.S. Customs Service (USCS) at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, disclosed to the media the USCS practice of discriminatory racial profiling. Cathy Harris formed Customs Employees Against Discrimination Assn. (CEADA) and verified her suspicions that women of African descent were wrongfully targeted for detentions and strip-searches as possible drug couriers.

Cathy's revelations resulted in a damning U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of USCS profiling practices and the introduction of federal legislation “Civil Rights for International Traveler’s Act” and “Reasonable Search Standards Act” to reform these unconstitutional practices.

According to her book, Flying While Black: A Whistleblower’s Story, she personally observed numerous incidents of black travelers being stopped, frisked, body-cavity-searched, detained for hours at local hospitals, forced to take laxatives, bowel-monitored and subjected to public and private racist/colorist humiliation. Read more in her books “The Cathy Harris Story: A Whistleblower’s Victorious Journey to Justice” and “The Failure of Homeland Security: The Government’s Dirty Little Secrets from an Insider.”

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Cathy Harris is an Empowerment and Motivational Speaker, Non-GMO Health and Wellness Expert, Advice Columnist at DearCathy.com, and a Business and Self-Publishing Coach. She is the CEO, President and Publisher of AngelsPress.com, an Empowerment and Publishing Company, where she has released 25 non-fiction books and she was part of the "American Whistleblower Tour."