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JUNE 2007

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Outstanding Students: Kevin Greene, class valedictorian for the 2007 graduating class, is an immigrant from Georgetown, Guyana. He arrived in this country with his family in 1980.  During his senior year in high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army doing a 12-month tour of duty in Iraq. Louise Anderson will receive her CUNY Baccalaureate in May 2007 and a Thurgood Marshall Scholarship. Her area of concentration, Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, was built around a core of study in John Jay’s Dispute Resolution Certificate program and an internship with the CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium, which is based at the College. She plans to pursue a PhD in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center with a focus on the psychology of political behavior. Christian Cardona will receive his magna cum laude BA in International Criminal Justice in May 2007. He was chosen as a 2007 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow.  He will use the fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in international affairs, with a concentration in international security. Through the program, he will work on international affairs for a member of Congress during the summer of 2007.  In summer 2008, the State Department will send him overseas to work in a U.S. Embassy, where he will get hands-on familiarization with U.S. foreign policy and the Foreign Service in a specific country.

Honorary degrees were awarded to Patricia Cornwell, Doctor of Letters

Patricia Cornwell’s crime fiction has been translated into 32 languages across more than 35 countries. A string of novels beginning more than a decade ago have reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list, including Cornwell’s latest, “Predator,” in 2005. She has also distinguished herself through her philanthropy, giving multi-million dollar gifts to academic institutions whose work advances knowledge in criminal justice science, research and education.

Richard Delgado, Doctor of Laws

The University Distinguished Professor of Law and Derrick Bell Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Professor Richard Delgado is considered the preeminent Latino legal scholar in the country. He is a founder of the Critical Race Theory movement, a school of thought that places race at the very nexus of life in the United States. A prolific writer, Delgado has published more than 146 journal articles and 43 book chapters.

Deborah Lipstadt, Doctor of Humane Letters

Dr. Deborah Lipstadt is an internationally renowned scholar of contemporary Jewish history. The Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and Director of the University’s Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, she represented President Bush in 2005 as a member of an official American delegation to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Lipstadt is also the author of a recent book chronicling her successful legal battle in a British court against a Holocaust denier.#

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