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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

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Sociologist, Educator & Author

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot

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5 out of 5
1 review

Sociologist, Educator & Author

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Cambridge, MA, USA
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Authors, Black History, Culture, Diversity Speakers, Education, Inspirational, Literary, Parenting, Personal Growth, University Speakers, Virtual Speakers
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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Biography

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a MacArthur prize-winning sociologist, is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she began her career in 1972. Educator, researcher, author, and public intellectual, Lawrence-Lightfoot has written eleven books: "Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools" (1978), "Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms" (1979) (with Jean Carew), and "The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture" (1983), which received the 1984 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. Her book, "Balm In Gilead: Journey of A Healer" (1988), which won the 1988 Christopher Award, given for "literary merit and humanitarian achievement," was followed by "I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation" (1994), and "The Art and Science of Portraiture" (1997) (with Jessica Hoffmann Davis), which documents her pioneering approach to social science methodology; one that bridges the realms of aesthetics and empiricism. In "Respect: An Exploration" (1999), Lawrence-Lightfoot reaches deep into human experience to find the essence of this powerful quality. "The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other" (2003), captures the crucial exchange between parents and teachers, a dialogue that is both mirror and metaphor for the cultural forces that shape the socialization of our children, and "The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50" (2009) explores new learning during one of the most transformative and generative times in our lives. In "Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free" (2012), she trains her lens on the myriad exits—ordinary and extraordinary, painful and liberating—that we make in our life journeys. Her most recent book, "Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers" (2016), offers an intimately detailed, emotionally powerful account of a pedagogy—of witness, growing, intimacy, and acceptance—composed by our children.

Lawrence-Lightfoot is a member of numerous professional and scholarly committees and boards of directors including: The American Philosophical Society, The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, The National Academy of Education, Bright Horizons, WGBH Educational Foundation, The Berklee College of Music, and the Atlantic Philanthropies where she is Deputy Chair. Lawrence-Lightfoot has been a Fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 1984, she was the recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded Harvard's George Ledlie Prize given for research that makes the "most valuable contribution to science" and "the benefit of mankind.” In 1995, she became a Spencer Senior Scholar; and in 2008, she was named the Margaret Mead Fellow by the Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Lawrence-Lightfoot has been the recipient of thirty honorary degrees from colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

In 1993, the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Chair, an endowed professorship was established at Swarthmore College; and in 1998, she was the recipient of the Emily Hargroves Fisher Endowed Chair at Harvard University, which when she retired, in July of 2019, became the Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Endowed Chair, making her the first African-American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor.

Lawrence-Lightfoot did her undergraduate work in psychology at Swarthmore College (1962-1966) and received her doctorate in the sociology of education at Harvard in 1972.

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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Speaking Topics

  • The Essential Conversation

  • Respect: Nurturing Goodness in Education

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Videos

  • Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on Portraiture | #HGSE100
    Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on Portraiture | #HGSE100
    Harvard Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot discusses Portraiture.
  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - Teachers Make a Difference
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot - Teachers Make a Difference
    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an author, educator, researcher, and public intellectual. She has pioneered an innovative social science method called...
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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Books

  • Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
    Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
  • The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
  • The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
    The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
  • The Art and Science of Portraiture
    The Art and Science of Portraiture
  • Respect: An Exploration
    Respect: An Exploration
  • Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
    Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer

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Sara Lawrence Lightfoot is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Essential Conversation and Respect: Nurturing Goodness in Education. The estimated speaking fee range to book Sara Lawrence Lightfoot for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Sara Lawrence Lightfoot generally travels from Cambridge, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Victoria Rowell, Alvin Poussaint, Judge Glenda Hatchett, Hill Harper and Erin Gruwell. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Sara Lawrence Lightfoot for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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