Despite your Ph.D. in education administration and policy at Stanford, where you helped create the Haas Center for public service, your work nationally with A Better Chance, and your teaching in DePaul’s master’s program in public services, your greatest legacy has been your extraordinary leadership of a school that defies the odds. Josephinum Academy is a Catholic middle and high school for girls in Chicago’s Wicker Park. Almost all its students are of color, eighty-five percent qualify for federal free or reduced-price lunch, and many of them enter performing below grade level. However, one hundred percent graduate and ninety-five percent earn college admission. To encourage their growth into young women of “faith, character, and intelligence,” you have created an environment in which, as you have said, they can try on the role of “smart girl” too often denied them in the outside world. You encourage them to excel in math and science and the use of technology. You provide tutors and counseling and programs that focus on study skills. You take them outside the school and outside themselves on field trips to the city’s cultural offerings and to engage in community service in Chicago, South Carolina, and New Mexico. And, as you have said, “We don’t ask whether you’re going to college but where.” Thanks to your efforts, this transforming education is available to students regardless of their families’ ability to pay. It is hard to imagine a more powerful educational model. In recognition of your distinguished achievement in education, Williams College is proud to honor you with its Bicentennial Medal.