From Harvard Magazine:
At Friday afternoon’s rain-soaked Radcliffe Day celebration, Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster received the 2025 Radcliffe Medal, reunited with an old college mentor, and gave a shout-out to Harvard for pushing back against the Trump administration. “What I hope for people now is that they take the gloves off, and Harvard has shown that recently, and right on,” Foster said, acknowledging that the politics of the last decade have left many people feeling “worn out and sad.” Then, looking toward the audience gathered in Radcliffe Yard, she added, “This group of thinkers in these rarified places, where the intellect and the ability to connect [are] really revered above all else, [need] to really understand that you have the power to use love as a guiding principle and be strategic.”
The day’s stated theme was women’s evolving role in film and television, but what kept coming up, for Foster as well as a panel of other speakers from the entertainment industry, were broader fights for equality and freedom. “Jodie has used the power of art to engage with existential questions that define the human experience,” said Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin in her introductory remarks, adding that Foster’s work focuses “our attention on critical issues and overlooked voices.”
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