Rachel Maddow’s Castro Valley High graduation speech … 1990

Long blonde hair, dangly earrings, Birkenstocks and all.

Interfaith Alliance appearance, October 24, 2010

Rachel Maddow received the Walter Cronkite award at the 2010 Faith and Freedom Awards presented by the Interfaith Alliance:

there are literally hundreds more pics over at the Interfaith Alliance’s Flickr photostream.

2010 Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard University, by Rachel Maddow

Dr Maddow gave the annual Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard University on November 14, 2010.

Here is a story in the Harvard Crimson about the lecture.

Here is an audio recording of the lecture and preliminaries. Dr Maddow’s lecture starts about halfway through the file.

Here is the video recording of the lecture. I couldn’t get it to play no matter how many times i downloaded the plug-in it claimed to need. You may have more success.

if i was in New York, this is where i’d be on December 20, 21 and 22

this from 92y:

For three nights this December, Rachel Maddow will host special live editions of her award-winning msnbc show at New York’s legendary 92nd Street Y.

Rachel Maddow is known for her commitment to digging deep and uncovering the unvarnished truth. 92Y has been home to critical public discussion of the most important issues for nearly 140 years. We’ve come together to create a unique series of exciting live conversations about where we are today and where we are headed as a country. Each night, Rachel covers a different topic, which she will discuss with a very special guest. Please join us for these exciting live television events at 92Y.

See more details here.

new pix, interview re: Smith commencement

there’s nice article that goes with these pix. written by Ileana Jimenez (pictured with Dr Maddow below) and posted at The Women’s Media Center. here’s a sample:

Amid bagpipes, professorial regalia, student activists handing out fliers reading “Support Smith Women Workers Now,” and student primal screams, Maddow swept the class of 2010, their families, and returning alumnae off their feet, even in all her humility.

… Just moments before Maddow marched into Smith’s sun-splashed Quad with faculty and trustees, I spoke to Maddow about her thoughts on speaking at a women’s college whose mission is proudly feminist.

“I do feel that the core of the feminist experience is that women are expected to be full people independent of their gender, and that it really is about having the same high expectations of everybody in this kind of an environment,” she said. “I think the idea that nobody gets cut any slack because of who they are is just as liberal and feminist as the idea that everybody needs special dispensation. You better be a badass no matter what you’re doing.”

… As graduate Grace Livingston declared, “(The speech) was phenomenal, she’s well-versed, intelligent, and smart. She’s everything a Smithie would be.” Geek approved, indeed.

do go and read the whole thing here.

Video: Smith speech

Here it is, in full. Smith commencement speech. Sunday, May 16, 2010.

more about “Smith College: Video“, posted with vodpod

smith commencement speech

new to me

nice shirt

a new look from jacob’s pillow

i haven’t seen this particular view of this set of pics before.