Michael Abram biography: 13 things about Karla Salazar’s Oxnard College professor

Michael Wolfe Abram is a white man from California, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is Christian. (a)
2. He has lived in different parts of California including Newbury Park, Granada Hills, Los Angeles, Mammoth Lakes, Thousand Oaks, Santa Barbara and Oxnard. (a)
3. He attended Ulysses S. Grant High School in Los Angeles. (c)
4. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara. (c)
5. He attended Los Angeles Valley Community in Los Angeles. (c)
6. He is a licensed chiropractor. His license was issued on August 22, 1997 and will expire on April 30, 2021. (d)
7. In 2001, he was hired by the Ventura Community College District in Ventura County, California, which has three separate colleges namely Moorpark College, Oxnard College and Ventura College. (e)
8. He teaches anatomy and physiology in Oxnard College. (e)
9. Most of the comments he received from his previous students on Rate My Professors are positive. Out of 109 students who commented from 2004 to 2020, 58 percent said they would take his class again. (f)
10. He was one of the two petitioners in Eleanor Delores Abram‘s estate case filed in the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County on November 15, 2010. (g)
11. On February 18, 2021, three TikTok videos show his interaction with Karla Salazar, a student who is hard of hearing, during an online class on Zoom. He accused the student of not paying attention and suggested her translator teach her instead. The videos went viral and netizens accused him of discriminating against a student with disability. (e) (h)
12. On February 19, 2021, Ventura Community College District officials announced that he had been placed on paid administrative leave. (e)
13. He was 56 years old when the Ventura Community College District placed him on paid leave on February 19, 2021. (a)

(This is a developing story. More details will be added.)

SOURCES:

• a. My Life
• b. Whitepages
• c. Zoom Info
• d. Department of Consumer Affairs
• e. Ventura County Star
• f. Rate My Professors
• g. Trellis
• h. Moorpark Reporter

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