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NPR’s Margot Adler to Speak,
Receive Honorary Degree at
Chicago Campus Commencement
09.01.11
Adler School of Professional Psychology is pleased to announce that National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Margot Adler, Ph.D., will provide the Commencement address to graduates at the School’s upcoming Commencement ceremonies in Chicago.
The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. Oct. 23 at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D., President of the Adler School, will present Adler with an honorary doctorate from the School for her past and present work promoting social justice and social change through journalism, activism, and writing. Following the presentation, Crossman and Martha Casazza, Ed.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs, will confer degrees to the Class of 2011 graduates.
Adler is the granddaughter of Alfred Adler, a physician and psychotherapist whose work in community psychology provided the framework and inspiration for the founding of the Adler School. As an NPR correspondent, she reports regularly on mainstay programs such as “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” and “Weekend Edition.”
Her reports have documented confrontation between radicals and the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, N.C., the work of AIDS counselors in San Francisco, the lives of homeless people living in subways, investigations into the state of the middle class, and an account on the last remaining hospital in America treating leprosy.
Currently, Adler is reporting on controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero, recent activity regarding the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the continued human drama surrounding the people of New York City
affected by the attacks of Sept. 11,, 2001.
In addition to her acclaimed work on NPR, Adler is an accomplished author. Her books include Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshipers, and Other Pagans in America Today, an account of contemporary nature religions. She also penned the 1997 memoir Heretic’s Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution. She is currently working on a book detailing why vampires have gained a foothold in modern culture.
Earlier this year, Adler and her son helped lay to rest the ashes of her grandfather, Alfred Adler, which a group of psychotherapists and the honorary Consul of Austria for Scotland discovered in a crematorium in Scotland. On July 12, the Adlers returned Alfred Adler’s ashes to his native Vienna, Austria. More than 100 people came to the cemetery to pay their respects and welcome Alfred Adler to his final resting place.
Click here for Margot Adler’s NPR story: “On Life And Ideas: A Relative's Ashes Reclaimed.”
Adler School of Professional Psychology has provided quality education through a scholar/practitioner model for more than 50 years. Its mission is to continue the pioneering work of Alfred Adler by graduating socially responsible practitioners, engaging communities, and advancing social justice. The Adler School has 11 graduate-level programs enrolling more than 1,000 students at its campuses in Chicago and Vancouver, British Columbia.