Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda was named 2025 keynote speaker for the communal and journalism launch at USC’s Annenberg School on Thursday.
Fonda reminds us whether communication is an essential catalyst for positive change through story, advocacy and dialogue, and encourages us to use our voices purposefully in the class of 2025,” Annenberg Dean Willow Bay said in a statement.
The author and activist known for her role in the counterculture movement during the Vietnam War will take the stage in the shrine auditorium for the opening ceremony of the Annenberg School on May 16th.
Fonda has won two Academy Awards, two British Academy Award for Best Film, seven Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. She has also received Grammy Awards and two Tony Award nominations.
Now she calls her “Act 3.” Fonda, 87, dedicated her voice to climate action. In 2021, she published “What can I do?: A Road from Climate Despair to Action.” Fonda spent her 82nd birthday in prison after being arrested in a climate protest in Washington, DC
Her many films include Barbarella (1968), Klute (1971), Coming Home (1978), On Golden Pond (1981), and more recently, The Night of Our Souls (2017), alongside Robert Redford.
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