Condoleezza Rice
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama on
November 14, 1954, the only child to bless the loving union of John and
Angelena Rice. In spite of the considerable disadvantages she encountered
just by virtue of growing up black in The South during the days of Jim Crow,
she somehow managed to overachieve, first academically, and then
career-wise.
In terms of credentials, she earned her bachelor’s degree in political
science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in
1974; her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D.
from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of
Denver in 1981.
Dr. Rice is currently a professor of business and political science at
Stanford University and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on
Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. From January 2005 to 2009, she
served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. Before serving
as America’s chief diplomat, she served as assistant to the president for
national security affairs (national security advisor) from January 2001 to
2005.
She joined the Stanford University faculty as a professor of political
science in 1981 and served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to
1999. She was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1991 to 1993
and returned to the Hoover Institution after serving as provost until 2001.
As a professor, Rice won two of the highest teaching honors: the 1984 Walter
J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities
and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
She has authored and co-authored several books, including Germany Unified
and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995), with Philip Zelikow;
The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin, Uncertain Allegiance: The
Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984) and Extraordinary, Ordinary
People: A Memoir of Family (October 2010).
Dr. Rice served as a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron,
Charles Schwab and Transamerica corporations. She was a founding board
member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for
schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California, and was vice
president of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. She currently serves
on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of America.
She has been involved in a number of humanitarian pursuits, most notably
with PEPFAR (The President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) and in creating
and serving on the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Both
endeavors increased aid to developing countries and the world's poorest,
most disadvantaged populations. PEPFAR was the largest commitment of funds
from any single nation to combat a single disease at any time in history and
the Millennium Challenge Corporation promotes sustainable economic growth
and poverty reduction.
She also serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, she is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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