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Four distinguished individuals, including commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson, will receive honorary degrees from Northwestern University. An acclaimed author and gifted storyteller, Wilkerson will receive her honor and deliver her address June 13 during Northwestern’s 164th commencement ceremony at Ryan Field.

Northwestern will award honorary degrees to three alumni and commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson for their contributions to arts, sciences and leadership at its commencement June 13. In addition to Wilkerson, NU alumni J. Landis Martin, Judith Olson and Eva Jefferson Paterson will receive honorary degrees. Wilkerson, who will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters, authored...