Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, best-selling author, lecturer, and business executive, will speak at the Boss McLoughlin Gymnasium at Lincoln School, 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, on Nov. 20, at 7 p.m. This event, presented by the Alexis Allen Boss ’89 Endowment for Community Accord and Public Service is free and open to the public, but space is limited so please RSVP at www.lincolnschool.org/wudunn.

Why bring Sheryl WuDunn to Lincoln School? Head of School Suzanne Fogarty maintains that “she represents what the girls at Lincoln aspire to be – thoughtful and powerful change-makers.” Sheryl and her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, co-authors of the #1 National Bestseller “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” (2009), and their new book, “A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity” (2014), “inspire us to deepen our awareness and to take action.”

This presentation is made possible thanks to the support of the Alexis Allen Boss ’89 Endowment for Community Accord and Public Service. The Alexis Allen Boss ’89 Endowment for Community Accord and Public Service enables Lincoln School to bring a distinguished and prominent figure to speak with students and our community on campus every two years. Alexis “Allie” Boss ’89, who died in 1995 at the age of 24 of a brain tumor, established this endowment before her death to enrich the fabric of Lincoln and its community. Allie was a leader who, in her short life, made a lasting impression on all who knew her, learned from her, competed with her, and laughed with her. Her poignant legacy challenges us to understand and to perpetuate the ideals that made her life so remarkable and to broaden public support of the values represented by the school she loved.