Award-winning actress, playwright, director and scholar, Anna Deavere Smith ('67), has been a supporter of her alma mater for many years and has welcomed current Western students to NYU where she founded and directs the Institute of the Arts and Civic Dialogue at New York University. Among extensive lifetime honors, Ms. Deavere Smith is a MacArthur “genius” fellow and was presented the National Humanities Medal by President Obama.
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Western Principal Michelle White ('93) will kick off the event with special guests Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick ('57), long-serving state superintendent of schools and current scholar in residence at Towson University, and Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, the first African American and first woman to serve in the role, and beloved former head of Enoch Pratt.
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Espi Frazier, extraordinary visual artist and recently retired educator at Friends School of Baltimore. Frazier’s 35 x 15 inch Red Queen Wall Hanging will be auctioned during the event; an extravagantly beaded, vivid crochet shawl will be raffled. To preview the wall hanging and the shawl, please follow the yellow highlighted links.
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