2024 Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lecturer
Teresa A. Sullivan (pictured above)
Teresa A. Sullivan, a leading scholar in labor force demography and former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, took office as the University of Virginia's eighth president on August 1, 2010.
Past Lecturers for the Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lectureship
2023 Rangina Hamidi, Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management
2022 Lily Hakim, Director, Executive Operations, Pfizer
2021 Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt, Head of Global Diversity and Belonging, Airbnb
2019 Pamela Sutton Wallace, CEO, UVA Health System
2018 Jensen Montambault (CLAS 1995), Executive Director, Science and Nature for People Partnership (SNAPP)
2017 Rachel Zaslow, Executive Director of Mother Health International
2016 Gretchen Steidle, Founder and President of Global Grassroots
2015 Jessica Posner Odede, Co-founder and COO of Shining Hope for Communities
About the Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lectureship
In 2014, Beverly Cobble Rodriguez and Joe V. Rodriguez, Jr. generously endowed the Beverly Cobble Rodriguez Lectureship Fund Supporting Women’s Education and Global Leadership to allow us to host an annual lecture on women’s education and global leadership with a special emphasis on healthcare, multi-national business, and the liberal arts.