Kathy Evans, professor of education, will be a keynote speaker at University of Wyoming鈥檚 Shepard Symposium on Social Justice in April. She will be joined by Judy and Dennis Shepard, the parents of Matthew Shepard, who was murdered outside of Laramie during the 1998 fall semester, and University of Wyoming education professor Angela Jaime. This is the 20th anniversary of Shepard鈥檚 death; the annual symposium honors him.
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