De Piero v. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ZACK K. DE PIERO, CIVIL ACTION Plaintiff, v. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NO. 23-2281 MARGO DELLICARPINI, DAMIAN FERNANDEZ, LILIANA NAYDAN, CARMEN BORGES, ALINA WONG, LISA MARRANZINI, FRIEDERIKE BAER AND ANEESAH SMITH, Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff Zack De Piero, a white man,was a writing professor at the Abington campus of Pennsylvania State University(“Penn State”). He became profoundly uncomfortable with how his colleagues and superiors talked about race in the workplace. De Piero made his feelings…