2023 Commencement
On June 1st, the Colin Powell School celebrated commencement on CCNY’s South Campus Lawn with a record number 1,000 new graduates. Commencement speaker Maya Wiley, the CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, encouraged the new graduates to be audacious in their demands for a better future — for themselves, their families, and our society. It took almost two hours for every new graduate to walk across the stage with cheers from family and friends. Linda Powell, Chair of our Board of Visitors, applauded every graduate from the front row, alongside Marco Antonio Achón, a member of our Board of Visitors. The whole event was moving and memorable. You can watch it here. With this commencement, the Colin Powell School has graduated almost 10,000 students in our first decade. Our number of new graduates has gone up every year — quite an achievement and one that would have made General Powell, who never missed a graduation when he was alive, very proud.
CLASS OF 2023 VALEDICTORIAN JENNIFER GARCIA Jennifer Garcia, a first-generation Mexican-American who was born and raised in Brooklyn, discovered City College after taking a gap year. She made a leap of faith, transferring from architecture to business and journalism. The Colin Powell School allowed her to level up her career aspirations and accomplish more than she thought possible, thanks to its diverse range of programs, internships, and fellowship opportunities. Jennifer was in the inaugural cohort of NBCU Academy Fellows. With the support of the fellowship and the Office of Student Success, Jennifer interned with CNBC en Español, integrating her business major with reporting to help promote financial literacy within the Spanish-speaking community. She produced multiple original segments on the topic and interned with the NBC Olympics
ANNUAL REPORT 2022 - 2023 I COLIN POWELL SCHOOL
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