GW Commencement Celebration 2021
(with Audio Descriptions)

Order of Exercises (program will run approximately 1 hour)

Welcome

Amy Cohen
Executive Director, Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service

Bagmi Das
Assistant Professor of Counseling and Human Development

Isabel Goldenberg, M.D.
Director, Medical Services, Colonial Health Center

Shirley Graham
Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs
Associate Professor of Practice in International Affairs

Danny Hayes
Professor of Political Science

William C. Handorf
Professor of Finance

M.L. “Cissy” Petty
Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students

Tara A. Scully
Assistant Professor of Biology
Director, Sustainability Minor

Andrew Sonn
Director, Office of Military and Veteran Services

James Tate
Chief of Police

Michael Tapscott
Director, Multicultural Student Services Center

Tanya Vogel
Director of Athletics

Greeting

M. Brian Blake
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Presidential Greeting

Thomas J. LeBlanc
President of the University

A Look Back

Reflections

Grace E. Speights, J.D. '82
Chair, Board of Trustees

Jenny Abreu, M.T.A. ‘09

Tony Dokoupil, B.B.A. ‘03

Sicheng Jiang, B.A. ‘15

Charles Kiamie, B.A. ‘00

Jennie Krems, B.A. ‘13

Sydney Sadick, B.A. ‘16

Sen. Mark Warner, B.A. ’77

Richard A. Jones, J.D. ’84
President, GW Alumni Association

Conferring of Honorary Degree

President LeBlanc

Nelson A. Carbonell Jr., B.S. ’85
Doctor of Public Service, honoris causa

Commencement Address

Lonnie G. Bunch III
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Presentation of Candidates

Provost Blake

Paul J. Wahlbeck
Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Barbara L. Bass, M.D., RESD ’86
Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Chief Executive Officer, The GW Medical Faculty Associates

Dayna Bowen Matthew
Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law

John Lach
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science

Michael J. Feuer
Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Anuj Mehrotra
Dean of the School of Business

Alyssa Ayres
Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs

Lynn R. Goldman
Michael and Lori Milken Dean of Public Health
Milken Institute School of Public Health

Melissa Feuer
Dean of the College of Professional Studies

Pamela R. Jeffries
Dean of the School of Nursing

Conferral of Degrees