Kyes Stevens Ma'99，MFA'00
Kyes Stevens Ma'99，通过教育刑事司法改革的领导者，将在Sarah Lawrence学院提供主题演讲毕业生开始仪式5月17日星期四。
仪式将于下午2:30举行。在南草坪威斯兰。开始将播放直播https://livestream.com/sarahlawrence/graduate2018。
史蒂文斯与全国各地的同事合作，建立国家高等教育联盟，在白宫奥巴马政府的成员举行了几次，讨论了高等教育在刑事司法改革中的作用。
“我们非常幸运能够在2月份作为我们的民主和教育活动系列的一部分，Kyes Stevens返回莎拉劳伦斯，”萨拉劳伦斯总统克里斯·柯林斯朱迪德说。“Kyes领先的工作是民主的基础，因为它有助于通过教育创造访问和平等机会。”
Stevens earned her MA in Women’s History and her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Justice to teach poetry at the Talladega Federal Prison in 2001. She has completed eight residencies at the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts in Clayton, GA, and was a co-recipient of the first Lillian E. Smith Writer in Service Award. She received the Auburn University Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2012 and an Auburn University Women of Distinction Award in 2010. She was the 2014 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Arts Fellowship recipient and, in 2016, was recognized as an AL.com Woman Who Shapes the State. She was also selected as a 2016 Southerner of the Year by南方生活。