Sage Morgan-Hubbard
Morgan-Hubbard, from Hyattsville, Md., has completed an independent concentration in "Performance Studies: the socially conscious art of the everyday." Her address is called, "Story and Voice: Passing on Brown's Legacy."
"Basically, my speech is about telling our stories and sharing our voices," she said. It will be in three parts: the story of her arrival at Brown, the experience of being at Brown during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the story of Imman Page, an 1877 graduate of Brown and one of Brown's first African-American students. She said she will end with a poem.
"I don't feel like it's just me speaking, I feel like it's also other people, particularly my family and my ancestors and the ancestors of Brown University people ... who laid the groundwork to allow me to come and attend Brown," Morgan-Hubbard said.
Morgan-Hubbard plans to begin her Ph.D. in Performance Studies within the next three years as a Mellon Fellow.
Joshua Wilson
Wilson, a religious studies concentrator from Haleyville, Ala., will deliver an address titled, "Dreams, Diversity and Dixie."
"It's about the dreams I had growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, and how when I first came to Brown I thought that I didn't fit in. But I learned that my uniqueness is what makes me fit in perfectly at Brown," he said.
"It's also about how the fulfillment of those dreams goes back a lot further then me - they're the capstone of dreams my parents dreamed a long time ago," he added.
Wilson said he was "absolutely thrilled" to be chosen.
Wilson is negotiating a multi-book deal with Clarion Call Marketing to publish his theological writings, and he will work next year as an executive assistant to Benny Hinn of the missionary organization Benny Hinn Ministries.
