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The Presentation of Graduates by Shobita Parthasarathy: 2021 Ford School Commencement

May 5, 2021 0:16:04
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Watch the Presentation of Graduates by Ford School professor Shobita Parthasarathy. May, 2021.

Transcript:

And now the moment you've all been waiting
for the presentation of the Class of 2021.

I'm pleased to introduce my colleague Professor
Shobita Parthasarathy, who when she's not

testifying before congress is writing and
teaching about ethics, equity, science and

technology.

And she's going to read the names of our 2021
graduates.

Shobita, take it away.

Thanks, Luke.

Good afternoon everyone, to begin I'll call
graduates earning doctoral degrees: Chiara

Ferrero is receiving a doctor of philosophy
in public policy and economics.

She'd like to thank her dissertation chair
Jim Hines and her committee Yusuf Neggers,

Joel Slemrod, and Ashley Craig.

Her dissertation title is "essays in public
finance and political economy."

Michael Lerner is receiving a doctor of philosophy
in public policy and political science.

He would like to thank his dissertation chair
Chuck Shipan, and Barry Rabe.

The title of his dissertation is "does transnational
advocacy catalyze environmental policy leadership?"

And finally Stephanie Owen is receiving a
doctor of philosophy in public policy and

economics.

Her dissertation chair is Sue Dynarski and
the title of her dissertation is "essays in

the economics of education."

And now we'll celebrate our graduates receiving
a master's degree in public affairs:

Dominic Arellano
Ethan David Baker

Anna Balzer
Karli Boulware

Anne Coglianese
Tom Cruz

Lindsey Dowswell
Stephanie Iovan

Hailey Jures
Raymond A. Kahn

Jamie Lyons-Eddy
Christopher Bryan McClain

Rebekah Ostosh
Julia Rhodes

Anuj . M. Sahay
William Scott Selesky

Lamiya Sharafkhanova
JoMeca L. Thomas

and William Whelan.

Next we'll recognize our graduates receiving
a master's degree in public policy:

Rebecca Ackerman
Ruqayya Ahmad

Mallak Ali Anani
Monika Anderson

Jonathan Ashken
Leonymae Aumentado

Capri Backus
Maggie Barnard

Aditya Benyamin
Ali M. Berri

Sheron Brown
Chris Campbell

Linnea Carver
Cristian Casanova Velarde

Sidi Cheng
Alison Christiansen

Samuel Thomas Conchuratt
Rebecca Copeland

oSha Cowley-Shireman
Kellen Datta

Carolina Dominguez
Chadd Dowding

Jerome Durden II
Nishat Farzana

Kevin Finnegan
Yanjing Fu

Ameya Ganpule
Steven S. Garcia

Eli Gold
Sarah Gruen

Shiyu Guo
Sophia Hart

Wendy Hawkins
Baltazar Hernandez

Samuel Ainsworth Hird
Sungwook Huh

Kseniya Husak
Kyle Douglas Jarrett

Jaclyn Kahn
Maxwell Kaufman

Emma Kern
Jaeyeon Kim

Sunhong Kim
Heather Kiningham

Andrew Krantz
Jocelyn Kuo

Christopher LeFlore
Barton Linderman

Tory Lowy
Dedrick McCord

Safiya Merchant
Erik Muliawan

Landon Myers
Iqra Nasir

Kevin Naud
Meghan Schroeder O'Leary

Nathaniel Ojo
Akinloluwa Olumoroti

Tanya Omolo
Guy Packard

Sharanya Pai
Edwin Peart

Lauren Alexandra Peisach
Sacha-Rose Phillips

Avril Erika Prakash
Karolina Ana Ramos

Victor Ochieng Rateng
Christen Jade Richardson

Sarah Richardson
Mathew Rigdon

Jonathan J. Rodriguez
Danny Rosa

Hannah E Rosenfeld
Julie Rubin

Orlando Sanchez Zavala
Mariatu Funna Santiago

Mariam Sayeed
Matt Sehrsweeney

Alex Serwer
Rizki Oddie Putro Sitompul

Marianna Smith
Thomas Staines

Kai Su
Eleanor M Sullivan

YaYa Sun
Nida Syed

Jessica Taketa
Kalena Thomhave

Sarah Tresedder
Sarah Truax

Amy C. Turner
Mai Ze Vang

James VanSteel
Connor Wakayama

Alex Weaver
Michael Hans Weiss

Kelly Wilcox
Annalisa Wilder

Wanzhuo Yang
Triana Yentzen Toro

Mohammad Akbar Zadran
and Jingwen Zhang.

And finally we will celebrate the students
receiving a bachelor of arts in public policy:

Bahaa Abazeed
Leah Adelman

Camryn L. Banks
Hilal Bazzi

Mariana Boully Perez
Bennett Bramson

Mary Bryce Brannen
Anthony Bui

Sabrina Butcher
Connor Cain

David Carpenter
Damian Chessare

Miriam Chung
Julia Cohn

Sheridan Jayne Cole
Meredith Winston Days

Samantha Della Fera
Brady Diller

Lena Dreves
Jack Eichner

Jackie Erlon-Baurjan
Riston Escher

Cydney Gardner-Brown
Molly Garyantes

Abigail Elizabeth Gawthrop
Benjamin Gerstein

Leah Graham
Maximillian Grahl

Erin Crawford Grant
Arushi Gupta

Grace Hermann
Nora Kate Hilgart-Griff

Dylan Horwitz
Jonah Dylan Jacobs

Simone Jaroslaw
Molly Edersheim Kalb

Amanda Kaplan
Grace Kent

Daniel Kim
Daphne Kreiger

Alex Kremer
Marita Ky

Tal Lipkin
Caroline Logue

Lucía López Olaiz
Michael Elliot Lovegrove

Matthew MacPhail
Camille Liliana Mancuso

Kelli Martin
Julia Esther Mati

Kerrigan McCabe
Madeline Theresa McLaughlin

Aaron Mei
Magdalena Mihaylova

Katherine T. Miner
Jason Moonka

Karuna Nandkumar
Bennett Neuhoff

Summer O’Sullivan
Devan O'Toole

Michael Antonio Ocasio
Eric Payerle

Angelica Priest
Allison Marie Pujol

Connor William Uan Reese
Aleksandra Rzadkosz

Sarah Sarnak
Julia Scavnicky

Julia Siegle
Nicholas Silk

Maeve Anne Skelly
Lauren Michelle Solomiany

Trevor Phillip Stratz
Zayna Syed

Eliza Sykes
Martin Taxay

Mikaela Uddfolk
Claire Vapnek

Jacob Viviano
Matthew Weiner

Ryan Woock
and Brett Daniel Zaslavsky.

BA graduates, at this time please move the
tassel on your mortar board from the right

to the left.

And now I'm so, so proud to present to you
the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's

Class of 2021.