Watchdog Group Accuses California’s First Lady of Profiting by Showing ‘Gender Justice’ Films to Schoolchildren

First Lady of California Jennifer Siebel Newsom speaks at the 4th Annual Women’s March LA: Women Rising at Pershing Square in Los Angeles on Jan. 18, 2020. Sarah Morris/Getty Images

SAN FRANCISCO—Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has been criticized for allegedly making a profit by screening her “gender justice” films to public school children.

The scrutiny comes from a nonpartisan government watchdog group called Open the Books, which claimed that “Siebel Newsom spent years laying the ideological groundwork and political infrastructure to support her policy ambitions,” in a research report published on Feb. 13.