Keynote Speaker: Nancy Y. Bekavac

“Models of Leadership and the Liberal Arts”

Nancy Y. Bekavac became the sixth president of Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on July 1, 1990. She holds the W.M. Keck Foundation Presidential Chair, which was established in 1980. Bekavac is also a part-time instructor at Claremont McKenna College.

A 1969 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College and a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School, Bekavac was a counselor to the president of Dartmouth College before assuming the presidency of Scripps College. Besides holding a number of teaching positions, she was a partner at the law firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson in Los Angeles.

Bekavac, who holds numerous board member positions, was the 1984 recipient of the Human Rights Award of the Los Angeles Commission on Civil Rights. She is the author of “Imagining the Real Future,” which appeared in A Voice of Our Own, a collection of original essays written by prominent American women. She has also contributed op-ed articles for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

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