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Five remarkable leaders will offer words of wisdom to Smith graduates

出版于2024年2月22日

五位杰出的艺术领袖, 学术界, 新闻, 社会正义, philanthropy and business will be recognized with honorary degrees from 澳门葡京博彩软件 during Commencement on Sunday, 5月19日, 2024. In a break from tradition, there won’t be one keynote speaker at this year’s ceremony. Instead, each honorand will offer a few words of wisdom and congratulations to graduates.  

荣誉学位将授予以下人士:

荣誉和他们的成就

María路易莎·阿罗约·克鲁萨多

出生于Manatí, 波多黎各, 在斯普林菲尔德长大, 麻萨诸塞州, María路易莎·阿罗约·克鲁萨多 is a poet and feminist intersectional educator. Arroyo Cruzado was the inaugural poet laureate of 斯普林菲尔德, 麻萨诸塞州, from 2014 to 2016; a 2016 New England Public Radio Arts & Humanities Award recipient; a 2019 Rising Star Teaching Fellow at the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference; a 2021 Assets for Artists grant recipient; and a 2022 ValleyCreates Project Evolution Grant recipient. Understanding four languages and cultures of experiences feeds her imagination, 她的诗和散文. She can easily move from ghazals to ekphrastic poems and from code-switching poems to multicultural/multilingual poems. 攻读博士学位.D. in comparative literature as a Clark Diversity Fellow at Binghamton University, 阿罗约·克鲁扎多(Arroyo Cruzado)在麻省理工学院教授创造性非小说类课程.F.A. program at Bay Path University and teaches German and Spanish online to adult students.

露丝E. 卡特

斯普林菲尔德, 麻萨诸塞州, native and two-time Academy Award–winning American film costume designer, 露丝E. 卡特 was the first Black person to win the Costume Design category. 她的获奖 黑豹 in 2018 was also the first Oscar recognition for Marvel Studios. In 2022, 卡特 became the first Black woman to win multiple Academy Awards in any category and the first costume designer to win for the first film and its sequel, 黑豹:永远的瓦坎达. Her designs fuse traditional and contemporary while incorporating technology to deliver fashion and function, creating Afrofuturistic pieces that empower the female form, honor ancient cultures and invoke a deep sense of representation. 通过她的职业生涯, 卡特曾与导演斯派克·李合作, 史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格, 艾娃DuVernay, 瑞恩·库格勒和其他人. A recipient of the Costume Designers Guild's Career Achievement Award, 卡特 has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is a member of the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. 露丝E. 卡特毕业于汉普顿大学, Virginia (HBCU) and was recently honored there with a doctorate. She holds an additional honorary doctorate from Suffolk University in 麻萨诸塞州.

库赞

库赞 is the CEO and 未来粮食系统的常务董事, a nutrition impact investment fund; a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment. 2009年，库桑被确认为美国驻华大使.S. ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. 2012年至2017年, Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), 指导14人,000-member team in feeding more than 80 million people each year. 在她的全球饥饿工作之前, Cousin helped lead the domestic fight to end hunger in the United States, including service as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of America’s Second Harvest (Feeding America). Cousin is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Georgia Law School and the University of Chicago Executive Management.

吉尔Lepore

吉尔Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American 历史 and Affiliate Professor of Law at Harvard University and a staff writer at 《澳门葡京博彩软件》. 她的著作包括 《澳门葡京博彩软件》，国际畅销书之一 Time 杂志十年来十大非虚构类书籍, and a trilogy of books detailing a political history of early America. 后三部曲获得了班克罗夫特奖, 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生奖, 伯克希尔奖, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best nonfiction book on race, Time magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the Mark Lynton 历史 Prize. 自2005年以来，Lepore一直致力于 《澳门葡京博彩软件》, writing about American history, law, literature and politics. 莱波雷只得了B.A. 1987年从塔夫茨大学(Tufts University)获得英语学位.A. in American culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. 1995年从耶鲁大学获得美国研究学位. (Stephanie Mitchell为哈佛大学拍摄.)

Reeta罗伊

万事达卡基金会总裁兼首席执行官, Reeta罗伊 holds nearly three decades of global experience across the private and philanthropic sectors. As the inaugural divisional vice president of global citizenship and policy at Abbott Laboratories and vice president of the Abbott Fund, 它的企业基础, Roy forged partnerships with international organizations to scale evidence-based approaches to addressing issues ranging from HIV in Africa to maternal mortality in Afghanistan. 在万事达卡基金会, Roy has focused its work on Africa and serving young Indigenous Canadians. 今天, the foundation deploys over $8 billion to improve education, deepen financial inclusion and build resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. 在接下来的十年里, 基金会将推进一项大胆的战略, 青年非洲工程, that will enable 30 million young Africans to access dignified and fulfilling work, while directing 75% of the foundation's partnerships and funding to African organizations. 作为领导者, Roy continues to believe in the potential of philanthropy to drive impact, finding inspiration and perspective by listening to the journey of others.