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Tiya Miles, Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 | Laurence Chase

Congratulations to Tiya Miles, the 1991 Harvard College Recipient, who won the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her book All that She Carried. Pictured here with Whitney, Gregg, and Devon Petersmeyer when she received her award from the...

Tiya Miles, Winner of the 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 | Laurence Chase

Congratulations to Tiya Miles, 1991 Recipient, Harvard College, who was awarded the 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her work ‘The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of Straits’. A 2011 recipient of a...

April 1, 2019 | Laurence Chase

Read the New York Times Opinion piece by Tiya Miles, 1991 Recipient from Harvard College. ...

Fitzie Experiences – Christiana Lackner

February 1, 2017 | Christiana Billiet Lackner

Christiana Lackner is the 2006 Harvard College Recipient. When I was awarded a Fitzie Prize my Senior year at Harvard, I was ecstatic. Fitzie was clearly a very special woman to many people. To receive a prize in her name from the...

One Heart World-Wide, Urique Mexico

November 6, 2016 | Jean Amanda Junior

Jean Junior is the 2008 Harvard College Recipient. After Harvard, Jean was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Upon completion of her M. Phil at Oxford, she returned to the United States and Harvard Medical School. Jean found time during her...

Our Unfinished Work: The Biography of Oki Ooko-Ombaka

November 4, 2016November 6, 2016 | Amandla Agoro Ooko-Ombaka

Amandla Ooko-Ombaka is the 2015 Harvard Business School Recipient. She used her grant from the Foundation to work on a book about her father, Oki Ooko-Ombaka. Read on to learn more about Amandla's project. Our Unfinished Work: The...

2016

September 21, 2016November 2, 2016 | Laurence Chase

2016 has been a busy year for The Fitzie Foundation. In the spring, we had the pleasure of interviewing a wonderful group of young women at Dana Hall and Harvard College. After much deliberation, the Foundation selected Amera Youssef at Dana...