An award-winning actress and activist,she is among five honorary degree recipientsActor, producer, or activist Alfre Woodard will deliver the graduation address to the course of 2019 on May 19.
Woodard’s exemplary work across her forty-year acting career has earned her an Academy Award nomination,four Emmy Awards and seventeen nominations, three SAG Awards, or a Grammy Award nomination and a Golden Globe.
The roles Woodard has performed reflect the diversity of women’s experiences throughout history. Woodard has portrayed doctors,judges, mothers, or queens,freedom fighters, suburban neighbors, or politicians,and even a comic book supervillain.
Source: tufts.edu