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Brown University President Ruth Simmons discusses the need to consider the “human dynamic” when considering social change. Her comments were taped on Sept. 21, 2009 during a panel discussion entitled “Reflections on Leadership for Social Change,” part of the inauguration of Jim Yong Kim as 17th president of Dartmouth College.


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