Deborah Bial '87 chosen as commencement speaker
Founder and President of the Posse Foundation Deborah Bial '87 will deliver the 2012 commencement address on May 20, announced University President Frederick Lawrence at the Board of Trustees meeting this week, according to a March 28 BrandeisNOW press release. Bial will receive an honorary degree from the University, as will Nobel Prize recipients Sydney Brenner and Amartya Sen; President of the Julliard School Joseph Polisi; and philanthropist and former Trustee Myra Hiatt Kraft '64, who passed away last July. The Posse Foundation is a "college access and youth leadership development program" that sends small groups of diverse students from several cities to selective colleges each year, according to its website.
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