Each year, speakers are invited to deliver a lecture that honors Mary Frances Early’s quiet determination and dignity as she strived to ensure that the state’s flagship university became an institution of higher learning for all the people of Georgia.

Dr. Adrienne Madison will be delivering the address, "A Legacy in Bloom: Rooted, Resilient, and Reaching."

The Mary Frances Early Lecture, also designated as a Signature Lecture, is sponsored by the Graduate School, Graduate and Professional Scholars (GAPS), the Mary Frances Early College of Education, the Office of Academic and Community Engagement, and the Office of the President, and is coordinated by the Office of the Provost.

The event is free and open to the public.