As part of the 2018 commencement, Otis College will also be presenting an
honorary degree to Rosemary Brantley, fashion designer and
Chair Emeritus of the Fashion Design Department of Otis College of Art and Design since 1980.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Gerrit L. Lansing **, Chairman
Emeritus; Suydam R. Lansing,
Honorary Chair; Patterson Sims, Chairman; Melville Straus, Barbara Toll, Vice
Chairs; Jean Minskoff Grant, President; James Cohan, Ann Schaffer, Vice Presidents; Jeffrey Bishop; Jill Brienza; Christo & Jeanne - Claude **; Ann Cook; Susan Coote; Maxine Frankel, Trustee Emerita; Carol Goldberg, Trustee Emerita; Hunter C. Gray; Marilyn Greene; Agnes Gund, Trustee Emerita; Jo Carole Lauder; Caral G. Lebworth **, Trustee Emerita; Laure Lim; Vik Muniz; Mel Schaffer; Susan Sollins *, Executive Director Emerita; Nina Castelli Sundell *, Trustee Emerita; Sarina Tang; Virginia Wright, Trustee Emerita; Ken Tyburski, Ex-Officio Trustee
Chair, ICI independents; Kate Fowle, Executive Director
A prolific and eloquent author and perhaps the world's foremost champion of biodiversity, Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor
Emeritus at Harvard and now the
honorary chair of the EOL, cheers the project's advent.