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Anne Gardiner Perkins
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Anne Gardiner Perkins

Anne Gardiner Perkins Biography

Anne Gardiner Perkins grew up in Baltimore and attended Yale University, where she earned her BA in history and was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. She is also a Rhodes Scholar and completed a BA in modern history at Balliol College, Oxford University. She has spent her life in education, from urban high school teacher to state-level policy maker. She received her PhD in higher education at UMass Boston and has presented papers on higher education at leading conferences. She lives with her husband in Boston, MA. Yale Needs Women is her first book.

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