Former prosecutor Linda Fairstein has resigned from at least two boards in the wake of the reignited backlash shes received for her role overseeing the so-called Central Park Five case decades ago.

Fairstein, who has written over 20 mystery novels since the mid-1990s, has resigned from the board of nonprofit organization Safe Horizon and from the board of her alma mater, Vassar College, according to announcements made on Tuesday.

Safe Horizon, an organization that provides support to victims of violence, released a statement on Tuesday announcing Fairsteins decision to resign. The statement comes days after people on social media have urged the organization to sever ties with Fairstein.

After careful consideration, Linda Fairstein has made the difficult decision to resign from the Safe Horizon Board of Directors, the statement read in part. We thank her for her decades of pioneering work on behalf of victims of sexual assault and abuse.

Elizabeth H. Bradley, president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, announced Fairsteins resignation in a letter to the institutions community on Tuesday.

I have just learned from the Chair of the Board of Trustees that Linda Fairstein has resigned from the Board, as of today, she wrote. I am told that Ms. Fairstein felt that, given the recent widespread debate over her role in the Central Park case, she believed that her continuing as a Board member would be harmful to Vassar.

Bradley added that the events of the last few days have underscored how the history of racial and ethnic tensions in this country continue to deeply influence us today.

Indeed, the recent release of Ava DuVernays stunning four-part Netflix series, When They See Us, has notably continued the growing conversations in the media about how systemic racism in the criminal justice system affects young black and Latinx boys and girls.

The limited scripted series spotlights the lives of five black and Latino teenagers, now-men, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Yusef Salaam and Antron McCray, who were wrongly convicted of raping a white 28-year-old female jogger in New York Citys Central Park in 1989.

The teenagers, known as the Central Park Five, each spent years behind bars before their convictions were vacated in 2002, after conclusive DNA evidence and a confession linked serial rapist and murderer Matias Reyes to the crime.

Fairstein, who was the chief Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor at the time the five boys were prosecuted, has come under fire on social media after her role in the case was portrayed in When They See Us, which hit the streaming service on May 31.