Commencement 2023
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Location
Amica Mututal Pavilion, 1 La Salle Square, Providence, RI
Start Date
June 2023
Description
NPR Host Ari Shapiro delivers keynote address. Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One and has covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine and Israel.
Shapiro spent two years as NPR's international correspondent based in London, traveling the world to cover a wide range of topics for NPR's news programs. His overseas move came after four years as NPR's White House correspondent during President Barack Obama’s first and second terms.
Shapiro has won two national Edward R. Murrow awards, a laurel from the Columbia Journalism Review, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, the American Judges’ Association American Gavel Award and the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.
An occasional singer, Shapiro makes frequent guest appearances with the “little orchestra” Pink Martini, whose recent albums feature several of his contributions, in multiple languages. He was born in Fargo, ND, grew up in Portland, OR and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University.
Commencement 2023 Keynote Address | Ari Shapiro
Amica Mututal Pavilion, 1 La Salle Square, Providence, RI
NPR Host Ari Shapiro delivers keynote address. Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has reported from above the Arctic Circle and aboard Air Force One and has covered wars in Iraq, Ukraine and Israel.
Shapiro spent two years as NPR's international correspondent based in London, traveling the world to cover a wide range of topics for NPR's news programs. His overseas move came after four years as NPR's White House correspondent during President Barack Obama’s first and second terms.
Shapiro has won two national Edward R. Murrow awards, a laurel from the Columbia Journalism Review, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, the American Judges’ Association American Gavel Award and the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.
An occasional singer, Shapiro makes frequent guest appearances with the “little orchestra” Pink Martini, whose recent albums feature several of his contributions, in multiple languages. He was born in Fargo, ND, grew up in Portland, OR and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University.