She spent her early childhood in New Orleans, LA until a hurricane/flood caused them to move to Oakland, CA.
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This week’s #SundayScientistShoutout is Betty Reid Soskin (born 1921)!
Soskin is a ranger with the @NationalParkService and at the age of 99, she is still serving as a ranger.
The oldest ranger to ever work as a National Park Ranger!
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She spent her early childhood in New Orleans, LA until a hurricane/flood caused them to move to Oakland, CA.
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This lead Soskin to became an active member of the Black Caucus of the Unitarian Universalist Assoc. - becoming a songwriter in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
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She regularly conducts park tours and serves as an interpreter to visitors, explaining its history, sites, and museum collections.
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CA Woman of the Year - 1995
Builders of Communities & Dreams by National Women’s History Project - 2006
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https://t.co/FVJeY1MWIs
WAVE award for "Women of Achievement" -2010
National WWII Museum Silver Service Medallion -2016
Robin W. Winks Award For Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks - 2018
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She also released a memoir entitled “Sign My Name to Freedom” in 2018.
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We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
