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CONTACT:  Mary Anthony

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Nov. 19, 2009

 

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Speak at Trinity University

 

SAN ANTONIO –Condoleezza Rice, United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009, will be the featured speaker for the Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs.  The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 7, 2010, in Laurie Auditorium and is free and open to the public.

 

From January 2005 to 2009, Dr. Rice presided as the 66^th secretary of state of the United States. Before serving as America’s chief diplomat, she served as President George W. Bush’s national security advisor from January 2001 to 2005. She is currently the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford University.

 

Dr. Rice has authored and coauthored several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft with Philip Zelikow; The Gorbachev Era with Alexander Dallin; and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army.

 

She has served on several national boards of foundations and charitable organizations. Dr. Rice is currently a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of Denver, her master’s degree from the University of Norte Dame, and her doctorate from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

 

The Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment gift by Mrs. Flora C. Crichton of San Antonio.

 

For more information, contact Mary Anthony in the Office of University Communications at 210-999-8441.

 

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