Scholarship and Biography
Honors
Honorary Degree
Simmons University (United States, Boston), 2001
Honorary Degree
Dillard University (United States, New Orleans), 2001
Honorary Degree
Smith College (United States, Northampton), 2003
Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship Award
Fletcher Foundation, 2005
Honorary Degree
Lasell College (United States, Newton) - LC, 2007
Ford Hall Forum, First Amendment Award
Suffolk University (United States, Boston), 2008
Honorary Degree
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (United States, North Adams) - MCLA, 2008
Honorary Degree
Mount Ida College (United States, Newton), 2013
Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance
University of California, Merced (United States, Merced) - UCM, 2016
Honorary Degree
Emerson College (United States, Boston), 2017
Martin Luther King Fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Cambridge) - MIT, 2017-2018
Honorary Degree
Lesley University (United States, Cambridge), 2019
Fellow
American Bar Foundation (United States, Chicago) - ABF, 2019
Honorary Degree
Mount Holyoke College (United States, South Hadley) - MHC, 2022
Silver Gavel Award
American Bar Association (United States, Chicago) - ABA, 07/12/2022
Organizational Affiliations
Past Affiliations
Education
Yale University
J.D.
Oklahoma State University-Main Campus
B.S.