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Photo: © Djeneba Aduayom. Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is also is president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.
Mar 14, 2024 · President. Photo: Sharif Hamza for Mellon Foundation. A celebrated poet, scholar, and cultural advocate, Elizabeth Alexander is a nationally recognized thought leader on race, justice, the arts, and American society.
May 23, 2022 · May 23, 2022 6:13 AM EDT. Elizabeth Alexander is many things. She’s a poet, a philanthropist, an educator, and an intellectual, but most of all, she’s a visionary. In her six books of poetry,...
Apr 6, 2022 · President of the Mellon Foundation and author Elizabeth Alexander discusses 'The Trayvon Generation', rethinking monuments, and making art.
Jun 19, 2020 · Elizabeth Alexander in Manhattan. Her recent essay for The New Yorker grapples with what it means for a new generation of African-Americans to be able to access and process black death on new...
Apr 15, 2022 · Elizabeth Alexander’s new book, “The Trayvon Generation,” grew out of a widely discussed essay of the same name that she wrote for The New Yorker in 2020. The book explores themes of race,...
Jan 13, 2016 · January 13, 2016. Susan Seligson. By nature, most poets don’t often seek out or find themselves in the limelight. But in 2009, the nation was riveted as Elizabeth Alexander stood at the US Capitol to recite her poem “Praise Song for the Day” at the inauguration of her friend President Barack Obama.
