GW Commencement Celebration 2021
(with Audio Descriptions)
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
Thomas J. LeBlanc
President of the University
Finale