2023 Fall Family History Benefit Dinner FAQ

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient...

Author and historian Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor. She previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; before that, she was the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her just-published memoir Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, she is the author of six books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

In Conversation With...

The Honorable Deval Patrick

Deval Patrick, Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership and Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School, is also a Senior Advisor to Bain Capital and former co-chair of American Bridge 21st Century, a progressive political action committee. He is the founder and former Managing Partner of Bain Capital Double Impact, a growth equity fund that invests in commercial businesses for both competitive financial returns and positive social impact. Prior to serving as Governor of Massachusetts for two terms, he was a senior executive in two Fortune 50 companies, a partner in two Boston law firms and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the U.S. Justice Department. He is a Rockefeller Fellow, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and the author of two books.

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