Hunter College Celebrates AUDRE LORDE WAY with HCHS AACS

Members of the HCHS AACS joined Principal Dr. Fisher and Director Siegmann in celebrating the legacy of HCHS ('51) and Hunter College ('59) Alumna Audre Lorde.  Known for her poetry, prose, activism and proud self-identification as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet", as a Professor English at Hunter College, she was awarded the Thomas Hunter Distinguished Professor award, and was named an American Book Award Winner in 1989.  Audre Lorde was the New York State Poet Laureate 1991-92.