Carlson is not alone: Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer who came out publicly against her employer
alleging sexual harassment, is also working with
members of the California State Assembly to pass legislation to eliminate forced arbitration, which prevented Fowler from coming forward about
sexual harassment at Uber until after she quit.
The act of kicking a
member out of the Academy is rare, but the AMPAS board in October did vote to expel Harvey Weinstein after a special emergency meeting in October, following bombshell reports the New York Times and New Yorker about decades of
alleged sexual harassment and abuse.