Edelman to Give NC State Spring Commencement Speech

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儿童国防基金会的创始人兼总裁玛丽安·赖特·埃德曼（Marian Wright Edelman）将于5月12日星期六上午9点在罗利的PNC竞技场上发表北卡罗来纳州立大学的开学地址。

在仪式上，总理兰迪·伍德森（Randy Woodson）将授予Edelman和Temple Grandin的荣誉学位，这是改善农场动物健康和福利的先驱。

Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Edelman was the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. She directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi.

In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm, and directed the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University before starting the Children’s Defense Fund in 1973.

爱德曼（Edelman）的许多奖项包括阿尔伯特·施韦特策人类主义奖；亨氏奖；麦克阿瑟基金会奖奖学金；以及总统自由勋章，该国最高的平民奖。她因著作而获得了罗伯特·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy）的终身成就奖。Her books include “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change,” “The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours,” “I’m Your Child, God: Prayers for Our Children,” and “The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.”

Grandin, an animal science professor at Colorado State University, is known for her work in designing livestock facilities and equipment. Half the cattle in the U.S. and Canada are handled in equipment she designed.

在2岁时，她拥有严重自闭症的所有迹象。强化语音疗法和教学使她能够学习讲话。由高中老师和姨妈的指导，激励格兰丁成为一名科学家。她获得了伊利诺伊大学的博士学位。她的书《翻译中的动物》是《纽约时报》的最畅销书，她的牲畜处理教科书是第四版。

她的其他书籍包括“图片思考”，“动物使我们成为人类”和“自闭症大脑”。一部有关她的HBO电影赢得了七个艾美奖奖和金球奖。格兰丁（Grandin）曾在美国自闭症协会董事会任职，并与全国各地的父母和老师交谈。在2010年，《时代》杂志将她命名为“世界上100名最具影响力的人”之一。她于2016年入选美国艺术与科学学院和2017年女子名人堂。

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