Rihanna to accept Harvard’s Humanitarian of the Year
The Pop megastar Rihanna has been recognized as the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year, and will accept her award next week, February 28.
S. Allen Counter, the Harvard Foundation’s director, explained, “In 2012, she founded the nonprofit the Clara Lionel Foundation Global Scholarship Program [named for her grandparents] for students attending college in the U.S. from Caribbean countries, and supports the Global Partnership for Education and Global Citizen Project, which provides children with access to education in over 60 developing countries, giving priority to girls, and those affected by lack of access to education in the world today. ”
Rihanna, whose body of works inspired international stage, has sold more than 200 million records.
She is today’s most influential woman because of her contribution not just in the entertainment industry but also bringing change to community.
Harvard University awarded influencer and change maker like physician-statistician Hans Rosling; actor James Earl Jones; Nobel Peace Prize Committee chairman Thorbjørn Jagland; U.N. Secretaries General Ban Ki-moon, Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar; gender rights advocate Malala Yousafzai; anti-child-labor spokesman Kailash Satyarthi; tennis player and activist Arthur Ashe; former Health and Human Services Director Louis W. Sullivan; and farmworker rights advocate Dolores Huerta.
Pop megastar proved that it’s more than pretty face, glitz and glamour, but also a heart whose ready to make and create change.
