The Aspen Institute: Ruth Simmons

Name: The Aspen Institute: Ruth Simmons
Start: 2024-07-30T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 1000 N 3rd St, Aspen, CO, United States, Colorado 81611

Schedule

Tue Jul 30 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1000 N 3rd St, Aspen, CO, United States, Colorado 81611 | Aspen, CO

Featuring Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University, and Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Rice University, in conversation with Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield. Dr. Simmons will discuss her 2023 memoir, “Up Home: One Girl’s Journey,” which is at once a stirring narrative of her trajectory from growing up as the twelfth child of sharecroppers in the segregated South to becoming the first Black president of an Ivy League university, and a circumstance-defying story of a girl who stretched beyond the boundaries imposed upon her—and the extraordinary people who made it all possible.