Tara Westover, inspiring author of the best-selling memoir, Educated, to deliver Northeastern's 2019 Commencement address
Westover’s best-selling memoir, Educated, explains her resilient response to the isolated and dysfunctional world in which she was raised, at the foot of a mountain in rural Idaho, working in a junkyard for a father who kept his seven children from school, medical care, and many other elements of mainstream society.