#Jessica Krug, professor who lied about being black, quits university post

Disgraced George Washington University professor Jessica Krug, who sparked a firestorm by pretending to be black, has now quit her job at the school, officials announced Wednesday.

Krug, 38, who is actually white, had already been pulled from teaching duties this semester and faced calls to step down after she admitted being a “culture leech” who publicly lied about her race for years.

“Dr. Krug resigned her position, effective immediately,” the university announced on Twitter. “Her classes for this semester will be taught by other faculty members, and students in those courses will receive additional information this week.”

Krug, an African history professor at the Washington, DC, school, came clean last week and admitted on a post in Medium that she “eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.”

“I have build my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken,” she wrote.

On Friday, the school announced that Krug would not be teaching this semester, with other faculty at GWU saying they were “appalled” at her long-running deception.

“With what she has termed her ‘audaciously deceptive’ appropriation of an Afri-Caribbean identity, she has betrayed the trust of countless current and former students, fellow scholars of Africana Studies… as well as community activists in New York City and beyond,” they said in a joint statement.

Krug has a Ph.D and authored a book titled “Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom.”

The university urged students “who have been affected” by the controversy to seek assistance.

“We hope that with this update our community can begin to heal and move forward,” the statement said.