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My personal favorite quote from Dr. Simmons “I grew up with very modest goals. I just wanted an opportunity to not be a made like everyone else.” The daughter of sharecroppers, in fact, the youngest of 12 children in the family, would go on to beat amazing odds, and reach the highest lead some of the most respected Universities in the nation, capping her leadership off with eleven years as President of Brown University.

A native of Texas and a 1967 graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans, Simmons received her Ph.D. in Romance languages and literature from Harvard University in 1973. In 1983, after serving as associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California, Simmons joined the Princeton University faculty.

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