Anita L. DeFrantz

Connecticut College, 2004

… our challenge is to live the final stanza of a song you have heard or sung hundreds of times … land of the free and the home of the brave!

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Arianna Huffington

Sarah Lawrence College, 2011

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Anne Lamott

University of California, Berkeley, 2003