Literacy Tag

For author and the Estée Lauder Cos.’ global changemaker Amanda Gorman, the intersection of beauty and literacy has at all times been clear. “Certainly one of the primary things I said to [Estée Lauder] after we first began talking was that I’m not here to be a reasonably face or a reasonably smile — I’m here to be a thought partner in what we’re doing,” said Gorman on the Beauty CEO Summit in conversation with Cori Murray. At 23, Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, fascinating the nation along with her original poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at president-elect Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration. Seven months later, she penned a contract with Estée Lauder because the brand’s first...