Writer Isabel Wilkerson to deliver address to Wellesley College class of 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson has been announced as the commencement speaker for Wellesley College’s ceremony on campus on Friday, May 16, 10:30am. It will be livestreamed, too.
Wilkerson is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Caste was chosen as a town-wide community read book in 2021, and Wilkerson spoke with members of the community about that book in a 2022 webinar.
Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for her narrative writing as Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times.