Click Here to read the keynote address delivered by author Alex Kotlowitz during the Adler School's 31st Annual Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, October 26, 2008.

The Adler School of Professional Psychology is pleased to announce that this year's speaker for the Chicago campus commencement ceremonies was author Alex Kotlowitz. He received an honorary doctoral degree from the Adler School for his work to promote social justice and social change. He delivered his address to 113 graduates and nearly 1,000 guests in the beautiful Chicago Symphony Orchestra Center.

Mr. Kotlowitz is the author of Never a City So Real, The Other Side of the River, and There Are No Children Here, as well as articles for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic. He is a frequent contributor to PBS and NPR's This American Life. He is a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and at the University of Notre Dame. The New York Public Library selected There Are No Children Here as one of the 150 most important books of the century. The Other Side of the River was awarded The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. His journalism honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the Thurgood Marshall Award. He is also the recipient of the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New York's Catholic Interracial Council. Mr. Kotlowitz grew up in New York City and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He lives with his family just outside of Chicago.

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