Distinguished Alumna Award
Distinguished Alumna Award
Journalist, poet, screenwriter, historian, novelist, and playwright...published in The New York Times, Village Voice, LA Times, Ms., Quarterly Black Review, and The Nation...Award-winning documentarian...First woman to win a Grammy for album notes...Librettist for contemporary operas The Life and Times of Malcolm X and Amistad… Taught at Barnard...Recipient of Revson Fellowship and Fanny Lou Hamer Award from Medgar Evers College... Pursuing a PhD and working on a miniseries about the history of black women
Scholar, teacher, and historian in the field of women’s history...May Brodbeck Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, professor of history, and lecturer in the College of Law at the University of Iowa...visiting professor at Stanford, Oxford, and University of Chicago...Recipient of AABC Fellowship for graduate study...First recipient of the Radcliffe College Award for distinguished scholarship in women’s studies, gender and society...Award-winning author of many scholarly books...past president of the American Historical Association
Service to Barnard College
Service to Barnard College
Financial executive...Class president, Reunion organizer, and founding member of Project Continuum...Served on the Financial Fluency advisory committee and teaches the equity and stock market module...Alumna representative to the College’s Socially Responsible Investing Committee...Volunteer for the Auction Committee for the Barnard Scholarship Dinner and Auction...Director of the St. Benedict Education Foundation and co-chair of the Knights of Malta for the New York City area
First time award has been given to a team of alumnae...Barnard Fund co-chairs who achieved an 81 percent participation rate from their class for the 50th reunion (and continued in those roles for the 55th and 60th reunions)...Since their 50th reunion, raised a record-breaking $2.2 million... Developed a video to help other classes achieve similar results...Longtime class officers and volunteers for the College
Thulani Davis ’70
Camille Kiely Kelleher ’70
Linda Kaufman Kerber ’60
Millicent Carey McIntosh Award for Feminism Nancy Duff Campbell ’65
Attorney, advocate for the rights of women and children...Cofounder of National Women’s Law Center and current co-president...Graduate of NYU Law School...Former staff attorney for Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law...Law professor at Catholic University and Georgetown...Appointed to the U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare...Lifetime Achievement Award from U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services...2010 Women’s Bar Association Woman Lawyer of the Year
Miriam Scharfman Zadek ’50 & Roselin Seider Wagner ’50
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