Ford School Class of 2020: Reading of the Names

>> MEGAN TOMPKINS-STANGE: Greetings, Ford School class of 2020, families, and friends! My name is Megan Tompkins-Stange, and I am an assistant professor at the Ford School. And on behalf of the Ford School faculty, it is my honor to recognize our graduates' formal completion of their degrees with a recitation of their names. So without futher ado, I present to you our 2020 Ford School Graduates. 

And we'll begin with the candidates for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Receiving a PhD in Public Policy and Sociology, Kennedy A. Turner. Dr. Turner's dissertation is titled "On the Battlefield?: Using Cultural Schemas to Navigate the Racial Terrain of College". Dr. Turner will be starting as the Director of Aspects of Leadership and the graduate school initiative for Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America. Congratulations Dr. Turner!

Receiving a PhD in Public Policy and Political Science, Nadiya Kostyuk. Dr. Kostyuk's dissertation is titled "Causes and Effects of Cyber Institutions: Intricate Interdependencies of Domestic and International Politics". Dr. Kostyuk will begin as an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Congratulations Dr. Kostyuk!

Receiving a PhD in Public Policy and Political Science, Jieun Lee. Dr. Lee's dissertation is titled "Foreign Multirnationals and U.S. Politics". Dr. Lee will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Buffalo. Congratulations Dr. Lee!

And receiving a PhD in Public Policy and Economics is Parag Mahajan. Dr. Mahajan's dissertation is titled "Essays on Labor Mobility". And Dr. Mahajan will be an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware. Congratulations Dr. Mahajan and congratulations to all our PhD graduates!

And we'll continue with the degree of our Masters of Public Affairs:
Dominic Arellano
Vanessa Andréa Castro
Edward A. Elliott
Andrew Gilroy
Andrew Harrington
Egle Klekere
Rachel A. Lawless
Inés Jiménez Llorente
Michael D. Mendez
Gerald H. Nelson
Kento Otomo
Alla Polishchuk
Diego Rodriguez Caceres
Gordon L. Rooney
Lamiya Sharafkhanova
Bo Shi
Thamreen Siddiqui
Seungyeon Son
Stephanie A. White

Congratulations to our Masters of Public Affairs graduates!

For the degree of Master of Public Administration:
Paula Dafne Avila Palomares
Gretchen D. Driskell

Congratulations Masters of Public Administration!

And for the degree of Master of Public Policy:
Michael Bachman
Matthew Beadle
Morgan A. Beeler
Malika Begum
Kate Bell
Elliot D. Berg
Allison Inge Bernstein
Kaitlyn E. Bimberg
Sophie Bright
Sean Thomas Burnett
Selene Ceja
Jennifer A. Chasseur
Joshua M. Childs
Chua Jiahui, Charmaine
Allegra Frumento Damari
Chelsea A. Davis
Eleanor Delamater
Emma Michiko Dolce
Megan M. Duffy
Rossana Giselle Espinoza Aquino
Scott Frederick Estrada
Emily Elizabeth Fletcher
Callie Furmaniuk
Efren Gomez, Jr.
Francisco I. González
Alissa M. Graff
Katie Grover
Eric Robert Hanss
Sasiphen Hathaichoti
Mike Hegeman
Karl W. Hoesch
Marcella L. Huber
Alexandra Grace Husted
Marc R. Jaruzel
Ali Jawad
Charles Kenneth Kargman
Kyungwon Kim
Tomohiro Kobayashi
Samuel Paul LeRoy
Wenjie Liu
Flavia Lorenzon
Gina M. Lucchesi
Aprisal W. Malale
Alex Maranville
Jonatan C. Martinez
Jackson James Dailey McCauley
Keriann McLoughlin
Rachelle Mehdi
Hannah Mesa
Laura D. Milstead
William Henry Minor IV
Lucas J. Misera
John Lankeu Muteleu
Nick Najor
Aloka Subha Narayanan
Steven James Norton
Ashley A. Nowicki
Guy C. Packard
Monica Comeau Pagani
Lingling Peng
Emily Pfleiderer 
Brandan Pierce
Sarah Emily Posont
Kristin M. Prestel
Mark Priebe
Anna Martha Pudimat
Sheny Diah Puspita
Gerson Ramirez
Kari Rea
Eli M. Reilly
Dana E. Robinson
Jeremy Rotner
Taylor Rovin
Ryan Marie Ruggiero
David Milton Sernick
Alex Serwer
Alex Shoap
William L. Sims
Julie Singh
Kyle C. Slugg
Leah Squires
Atsushi Suehiro
Tanvangi Tiwari
Andrew Van Horn
Ryan C. Van Wie
Mai Ze Vang
Miranda C. L. Vetter
Jennifer Villavicencio
Emma Waitzman
Shannon Weaver
Julia M. Weigand
Connor A. Wilkinson
Teresa K. Wisner
Zhibin Ye
John Yim
Yusuke Yoshihama

Congratulations MPPs!

And last but certainly not least, for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy:
Bahaa Abazeed
Katharine Anderson
Brooke A. Bacigal
Nathan Baylis
Alexis Birge
Bianca D. Blanshine
Grace Marie Bristol
Julian G. Buchwalter
Lauren E. Camp
Elizabeth T. Chon
Sheridan Jayne Cole
Hannah Connors
Hannah Katherine Davenport
Billy Dering
Jangul Erlon-Baurjan
Miriam Irene Jenkins Ernest
Elizabeth Fernandez
Christian Ford
Jacqueline R. Freeman
Caroline E. Frommelt
Claire Galligan
Christina Gatti
Arwa Gayar
Liam Geduldig
Pranav M. Govindaraju
Nadia N. Hakim
Noah P. Harrison
Kendall F. Hecker
Samuel Herwig
Lillie M. Heyman
Keegan James Hollyer
Kysia Jones
Priya Choezom Judge
Kendall M. Kaiser
Cathrine A. Kelly
Bernadette King Fitzsimons
Jonah Klausner
Jacob E. Kopnick
Stavroula Rose Kyriazis 
Nathan R. Lindfors
Corey E. Lipton
Jingyao Johnny Luo
Shayna Lutz
Maureen Mahoney
Amira Mandwee
Nicholas R. Martire
Lyla Masri-Zada
Lauren E. May
Lily E. McLean
Andrew M. Mekhail
Jena S. Metwalli
Katherine Teresa Miner
Sophie L. Mishara
Natasha O. Nielsen
Holli M. Page
Charlotte Faye Pierce
Brennan Pope
Ethan A. Ramer
Aleah Rogalski
Elise B. Rometsch
Carly E. Ryan
Rana Shahani
Zachary D. Shulkin
Ashton Smith
Elena C. Smith
Sierra Leonie Stephens
Finntan R. Storer
Bhavya Sukhavasi
Keenan Sullivan
Evan J. Swinehart
Abigail Nicole Takas
Nicholas J. Tomaino
Olivia Rose Turano
Vennela Vellanki
Daniel Warner
Kate Watkins
Brianna Wells
Jacquelyn A. Wheeler
Christopher James Young

On behalf of the Ford School Faculty, it's my great pleasure to invite our graduates to formally mark this monumental accomplishment by moving your tassel to the other side. I'm thrilled and proud to formally introduce for the first time our phenomenal Ford School class of 2020 graduates. Families, friends — please join us in celebrating. Congratulations and forever Go Blue!