Political Quotes

“I rise today with both deep sorrow and immense gratitude to honor the extraordinary life and legacy of my dear friend, Dr. Olga Karman, who passed away last week after a courageous battle with leukemia. Dr. Karman was a poet, a professor, an immigrant, an activist, a mother, a grandmother, and a mentor. She profoundly shaped my life and the lives of countless others across the globe. Dr. Karman was born in 1940 in Havana, Cuba, where she graduated from the distinguished Ruston Academy in 1958 and attended Santo Tomas de Villanueva University. By 1960, she left Cuba, immigrating to the United States for a better life. After settling in rural Connecticut, she resumed her education at Connecticut College, graduating in 1966 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Powered by her fierce intellect and passion, she received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at Harvard University, earning her a Ph.D. in Latin American literature in 1976. Later that same year, Dr. Karman arrived in Buffalo, where she would spend the rest of her life enriching the city's cultural, academic, and civic fabric.”