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May 3, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth
Patrick Burleigh
The Setonian
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Feminist writer Walker discusses activist work

As the Women's Resource Center's "Visionary in Residence," feminist writer and lecturer Rebecca Walker spent three days last week meeting with students and faculty to discuss her work as an activist and author. On Friday she was awarded the "2000 Women's Resource Visionary Award" by the Resource Center, an honor that is given -- in the words of Giovanna Munafo, the Center's Director -- "to someone more challenging than simply an 'artist or writer in residence,' someone who builds new paradigms." "It is very rare for me to find students as engaged and intelligent and as beautiful as you are," Walker told a nearly full 105 Dartmouth Hall on Friday.

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