Tributes & Citations.
It is an honor and an art to pay tribute to extraordinary individuals — to let them know what their contributions mean in words they haven’t heard countless times… to paint a portrait of their work and their lives with grace and heart.
Beth has written citations that were delivered to Barack Obama, Meryl Streep, Hillary Clinton, Patti Smith, Joan Didion, David Remnick, Viola Davis, Cecile Richards, Billie Jean King, Elizabeth Diller, Michael Bloomberg, and many others. She has also drafted obituaries in memory of trustees, professors, alumnae, and students — an especially poignant and meaningful responsibility.
“No one should try to encapsulate your breadth and depth—your piercingly intimate photographs and volumes of lucid verse, your unapologetic activism and abiding humanity.”
— honoring Patti Smith, Barnard College 2014