The main Emory University ceremony on Monday, May 8, is on the Emory Quadrangle at 8:30 a.m. Graduates and their guests need tickets to attend in person.

Their contributions in the areas of sustainability, early childhood education, health care and the arts have helped improve the quality of life in our community. Through personal and foundation giving, the Kennedys have made landmark investments in patient care, brain health and cancer. Sarah Kennedy, one of Atlanta’s most active, compassionate and effective civic leaders, serves on the Executive Advisory Council of the Emory Brain Health Center - a body whose members serve as ambassadors locally and nationally, contributing to the mission of the center through philanthropy, networking and advocacy.

He launched Cox Conserves, a sustainability program at Cox that seeks to send zero waste to landfills by 2024 and become carbon- and water-neutral by 2034. The foundation supports conservation and the environment, early childhood education, and empowering families and individuals for success and health. Jim Kennedy is chairman emeritus of Cox Enterprises and chairman of the James M. He also works with LifeLines, which supports prisoners on Death Row through letter writing, and is the author of the New York Times 2018 bestselling book “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row.”Įmory will confer honorary degrees on three individuals at the Commencement ceremony: Hinton and philanthropists and health care advocates James Cox Kennedy and Sarah Kenan Kennedy. Hinton now serves as an EJI community educator and is a tireless and powerful advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. He spent the next 30 years in custody until the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) secured his freedom. 17, 1986, Hinton entered Death Row in Alabama for crimes he did not commit.

Anthony Ray Hinton is this year’s Commencement speaker and one of three honorary degree recipients.Īctivist, writer and justice advocate Anthony Ray Hinton will deliver the keynote address at the Emory University Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 8. Emory University will celebrate its Class of 2023 with Commencement ceremonies May 5-8 on the Atlanta and Oxford College campuses.Īs the time draws near, here are 10 things you need to know about the celebrations.

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