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The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Office of the President is pleased to host guest artist  for a musical performance with accompaniment by campus organist Adán Alejándro Fernández and the Kingsmen and Regals Quartets. The event also will include a conversation between President John Nunes and Floyd.

Ruth Naomi Floyd is an award-winning vocalist and composer who has been at the forefront of creating vocal jazz music that expresses theology, history, and justice for over thirty years. An educator, photographer, and justice advocate, Ruth has performed and lectured worldwide. She has taught at several institutions and was the first African American woman to serve as founding director of a university jazz studies program in the United States. Her creative work and teaching are inseparable from her lifelong advocacy, which has long served marginalized and under-resourced communities.