Serving & Shaping Her World Speakers Series

Lynn Sherr —October 17, 2007

Lynn Sherr has been on television with ABC News since 1977 and has been a 20/20 correspondent since 1986. Her work includes a wide range of stories, particularly ones concerning women’s issues and social changes, as well as investigative reports. She has won numerous awards for her work, including two Peabody Awards and an American Women in Radio and Television Award. Her address is entitled, “Outside the Box: Life in and out of Television.”

Dr. Richard Selzer —October 31, 2007

Richard Selzer is a native of Troy, New York, who attended Union College in Schenectady and earned an M.D. at Albany Medical College. He wrote Rituals of Surgery, a collection of short stories, and numerous essays and stories which are collected in Mortal Lessons and Confessions of a Knife. He also wrote a volume of essays and fiction, Letters to a Young Doctor. In 1991, he contracted Legionnaire's disease and went on to document his recovery in Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality. His writing reflects his experience as a surgeon, and as one critic points out, he "forces physicians to think about the morality of medicine." His address will be entitled, “The Surgeon as Writer.”

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Environmental panel: Erin Crotty ’84, Laurie Burt ’67, Sierra Murdoch '05—January 9, 2008

These accomplished women all play different roles in the effort to battle environmental issues. They will discuss what they do and wrestle with questions concerning our current environmental situation. Click here to learn more about the panel discussion.

Erin Crotty ’84: first female commissioner of environmental conservation for New York State under former Governor George Pataki; president of the Crotty Group, a management consulting firm that assists corporations, governments, and non-governmental organizations with the complex issues relating to the environment, energy, economic development, and land use; president of the EWS Alumnae Association Council; and member of the board of trustees

Laurie Burt ’67: environmental attorney; former senior partner at Foley Hoag; started firm’s environmental practice group; appointed Massachusetts Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.

Sierra Murdoch '05: a junior at Middlebury College majoring in environmental studies.

Sarah LeVine —March 5, 2008

Sarah LeVine is a research associate in human development and psychology at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal. Professor LeVine will address her work with Theravada Buddhist nuns, as well as speak about her work with mothers, children, and families that spans 40 years and four continents.

Major Jackson —March 27, 2008

Major Jackson is an award-winning poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Hoops and Leaving Saturn. He is an associate professor of English at University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is currently the fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. His address is entitled, “Going Beyond Journal Writing: How Poetry Divines.”