Rachel Kimball Wilcox spoke as the representative of her graduating class at BYU Commencement on August 17, 2006.
Wilcox studied philosophy, literature, and film at BYU and graduated as valedictorian. After graduation, she traveled to Africa and cofounded a humanitarian project. She has been a researcher and case writer at Harvard Business School, specializing in law and the humanities. She studied at Stanford Law School.
Wilcox is the author of The Eleventh Brother: A Novel of Joseph in Egypt.