spring commencement monterey, california saturday, may 15, 2021
MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY
Commencement Exercises and Conferring of Degrees
5 PROCESSIONAL WELCOME
Jeff Dayton-Johnson Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Institute Laurie L. Patton Middlebury President COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Brian Deese ’00 G L O B A L C I T I Z E N ’ S AWA R D
Gary Slutkin STUDENT SPEAKER
Rayna Rogers MANPTS ’21 CONFERRING OF DEGREES
President Laurie L. Patton
P R E S E N TAT I O N O F C A N D I DAT E S F O R D E G R E E S
Fernando DePaolis, Dean Graduate School of International Policy and Management Katherine Punteney, Professor, Program Chair International Education Management Jason Scorse, Associate Professor, Program Chair International Environmental Policy Fernando DePaolis, Dean, Program Chair International Policy and Development, International Trade and Economic Diplomacy Jeff Knopf, Professor, Program Chair Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies, Certificate in Financial Crime Management Mahabat Baimyrzaeva, Associate Professor Master of Public Administration Laura Burian, Dean Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education Julie Johnson, Professor, Program Chair Translation, Translation and Interpretation, and Conference Interpretation Wallace Chen, Professor, Program Head Chinese Translation and Interpretation Christiane Abel, Associate Professor, Program Head French Translation and Interpretation Andrea Hofmann-Miller, Associate Professor, Program Head German Translation and Interpretation
Hideko Russell, Assistant Professor, Program Head Japanese Translation and Interpretation Miryoung Sohn, Associate Professor, Program Head Korean Translation and Interpretation Rosa Kavenoki, Professor, Program Head Russian Translation and Interpretation Cas Shulman-Mora, Associate Professor, Program Head Spanish Translation and Interpretation Max Troyer, Associate Professor, Program Chair Translation and Localization Management Jason Martel, Associate Professor, Program Chair Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and Teaching Foreign Language C L O S I N G R E M A R KS
Vice President Jeff Dayton-Johnson
P R E S I D E N T ’ S PA R T Y
Laurie L. Patton Brian Deese ’00 Rayna Rogers MANPTS ’21 Laura Burian Fernando DePaolis Jeff Dayton-Johnson
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L E D U C AT I O N M A N AG E M E N T
Sarah Lynne Biser Grace Elizabeth Davis Charlotte R. Ennen Sura Fadhel Joshua B. Ferry* Kellee Ann Fletcher* Madison Lucero Angela Jean Luedke* Nancy Kumi Matsukawa* Steven James Mockler Rachel Elise Salay Emma Lauren Schultz* Jennifer Marie Velez
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Mount Pleasant, Iowa Boston, Massachusetts Pacific Grove, California Wall, New Jersey Loveland, Colorado San Jose, California Omaha, Nebraska Colton, California Ocean Springs, Mississippi Columbus, Ohio La Grange, Texas Worcester, Massachusetts
MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L E N V I R O N M E N TA L P O L I CY
Illeana M. Alexander Miya Ellin Burke Mariana Elisa Filip Elizabeth Francis Lawrence Garber* C. Walden Kiker Ellie Amanda Pilecki Oliver* Anna Claire Ondracek Cora S. Panturad Gabriel C. Pike Oceane Ringuette Sydney Diane Samples Kelsey R. Shoup Seth Evan Small Trang Phuong Trinh Katrina Von Burg
Monterey, California St. Louis, Missouri Los Angeles, California Denver, Colorado Portage, Michigan Annapolis, Maryland Marysville, California Lincoln, Nebraska Fort Worth, Texas Vienna, Virginia Pacifica, California Des Moines, Iowa Irvine, California Los Angeles, California Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Ojai, California
Conway, Massachusetts Orange, Connecticut Shijiazhuang, China
Andrew Ryland White Rafal Christopher Wilson Xia Yitong
MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L P O L I CY A N D D E V E L O P M E N T
Success J. Akposoe Brenna Maureen Brown Joshua Michael Bryan Jane Eklund Stone Quinn Goethe Johnnie P. Ivey Nicole Tracey Kroeger Zaw Lawt Isabella Lloyd-Damnjanovic* Matthew Jake MacKay Matthew Montoya Agostina Afua Tenewaa Ntow Keily Ariana Ramirez Nathaniel Qushawn Sawyer Miranda R. Schwabauer Sara A. Spencer Karen Liselotte Terkel
Santa Cruz, California San Mateo, California Las Vegas, Nevada Hollis, New Hampshire Lancaster, California Monterey, California Bethesda, Maryland Myitkyina, Myanmar Los Angeles, California Hudson, New Hampshire Tracy, California Osiem, Ghana Charlotte, North Carolina Shelby, Alabama Portland, Oregon San Francisco, California San Diego, California
MASTER OF ARTS IN I N T E R N AT I O N A L T R A D E A N D E C O N O M I C D I P L O M ACY
Santa Cruz, California Tracy, California
Success J. Akposoe Matthew Montoya
MASTER OF ARTS IN N O N P R O L I F E R AT I O N A N D T E R R O R I S M S T U D I E S
Thomas Woodman Apostle Erica Grace Barbarossa Robert E. Broyles Kyle T. Carnline Emily Rose Christian* Tyler Clark
Halifax, Canada Guilford, Connecticut Kentwood, Louisiana Spokane, Washington Morristown, New Jersey Monterey, California
Michael L. Danahy Sara Nicole Day Nikita Degtyarev Jackson Gregory Dzus Adam Diaa Eldin Conor Daniel Foster Michael Brian Hamby Ashley Hom Jake Francis Jamison Hyun Jeon Alexander Karmin Virginia Marie Kerr Ahana G. Kowdley Eleanor Lydia Krabill* Ian J. Kussin-Gika Benjamin M. Mattern Collin P. McDowell* Allison Anne Owen Jasmine C. Owens Laura Lynn Peyton Tiffany Lauren Polyak Marco Xian-Jun Pura Inna Rodina Rayna Celeste Rogers Kassandra Dee Rae Ropp Sergey D. Semenov* Brittany K. Stallings Blake Lawrence Vincent Kiera Elizabeth Welch* Dong Suk Yoo
Billings, Montana Las Vegas, Nevada Yekaterinburg, Russia Hermosa Beach, California Morganton, North Carolina Antioch, California Monterey, California Alameda, California Berkeley, California Seoul, Republic of Korea Highland Park, Illinois Napa, California Ellicott City, Maryland Tacoma, Washington Granada Hills, California Charlottesville, Virginia Monterey, California Overland Park, Kansas Waukesha, Wisconsin Washington, D.C. Saint John, Indiana Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tambov, Russia Cleveland, Ohio El Dorado Hills, California Orenburg, Russia Cave Creek, Arizona Hope Valley, Rhode Island Niceville, Florida Seoul, Republic of Korea
M A S T E R O F P U B L I C A D M I N I S T R AT I O N
Gharsanay Amin John Riley Barnacastle Shannon Hunihan Casey Charlotte R. Ennen Runzi Li Steven James Mockler Anissa Crystal Monteon Eric Alfredo Mora Alexandria Renee Muff Myles Raymond Nussbaum Melissa D. Palmer Rachel Elise Salay Fatima Kamal Sayeh Daniel Andrew Zamora
Jalalabad, Afghanistan Birmingham, Alabama Norwood, New Jersey Boston, Massachusetts Shenyang, China Ocean Springs, Mississippi Eastvale, California Salinas, California Omaha, Nebraska West Chester, Pennsylvania Seymour, Wisconsin Columbus, Ohio Nablus, Palestine La Crescenta, California
C E R T I F I C AT E I N F I N A N C I A L C R I M E M A N AG E M E N T
James M. Flagg
*With distinction
Carmel Valley, California
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF TRANSLATION, INTERPRETATION, AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION Master of Arts in Conference Interpretation=CI Master of Arts in Translation=T Master of Arts in Translation and Interpretation=TI
CHINESE
Qiwei Chen (CI) Yiqi Chen (TI) Anthony Chou (CI) Yujiang Dong (CI) Hann Wen Doong (T) Zhiyuan Fang (CI) Jiayi Feng (CI) Josephine Chen Szuyen Foster (CI) Rony Gao (CI) Diane Guo (CI) Chaozheng Huang (T) Aditya Gagan Jaiswal (T) Yanhui Jiang (TI) Yuxin Lester Li (CI) Jessie Z. Liu (CI) Xinyu Liu (CI) Jiayi Lyu (CI) Brendan J. Nuse (CI) Zhouyi Qian (CI) Yuwei Song (CI) Lin Tian (CI) Yikai Wang (CI) Jiayu Wu (T) Xiaolu Xu (T) Fangxuan Yang (TI) Ye Yu (CI) Jiayin Zheng (CI) Huimin Zhuang (CI)
Wuhan, China Ningbo, China Monterey, California Yinchuan, China New Taipei City, Taiwan Chengdu, China Taiyuan, China Clifton, Virginia Toronto, Canada Vancouver, Canada Luzhou, China Prayagraj, India Wuxi, China Chang’an, China Los Angeles, California Shandong, China Zhoushan, China Princeton Junction, New Jersey Wuxi, China Shanghai, China Tianjin, China Shanxi, China Foshan, China Shanghai, China Hangzhou, China Qingdao, China Plano, Texas Fuzhou, China
FRENCH
Andrea L. Goethals (TI) Louisa Catherine Otey (TI) Jem Walker (TI)
La Grange, Illinois New Fairfield, Connecticut Denver, Colorado
GERMAN
Saketa Raja Musinipally (TI) Lucinda Pike (TI)
Hyderabad, India Gorham, Maine
JA PA N E S E
Ryan M. Cook (T) Yukiko Mitsuyama (CI) Rie Okoso (CI) Miki Watanabe (TI)
Atlanta, Georgia Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan
KO R E A N
Haeeun Grace Kim (CI) Taekmin Kim (CI)
Incheon, Republic of Korea Seoul, Republic of Korea
RUSSIAN
Victoria Dunlap (CI) Amit Jakhmola (TI) Elizabeth Anita Tolley (CI) Kirill Dmitry Vompe (TI)
Bristow, Virginia New Delhi, India New York, New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
S PA N I S H
Daniel Francisco Aparicio Arrieta (CI) Ana I. Bonilla Jusino (TI) Ardyn Clayton (TI) Isabel Gonzalez-Gutierrez (TI) Lena Greenberg (TI) Eric J. Holman (TI) Fiona Maloney-McCrystle (TI) Mireille Maxemin Mariansky (TI) Michelle Mirabella (TI) Gabriela Zayas Alom (TI)
Lima, Peru Arecibo, Puerto Rico Dalton, Georgia Evanston, Illinois Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lake Tahoe, California Los Gatos, California Sacramento, California Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Havana, Cuba
MASTER OF ARTS IN T R A N S L AT I O N A N D L O C A L I Z AT I O N M A N AG E M E N T
Cassandra Nketiah Agyemang Yafang Cai Elizabeth Canales Suane Lorian Carbajal Echevarria Jiaxi Chen Qifan Chen Xiaofan Chen Xiayi Chen Xinyang Chen Jamie Chu Kimberly Cone* Geirrlon O. Dunn Bianca Vanessa Duvall Veronica J. Fried Ricardo Manuel Garay Mori Cynthia Gong Elizabeth Elvira Hawkes Yang He Yuxin He Benjamin Royden Henry Beixian Huang Philip M. Karagoulis Hyerin Lee Nina Elizabeth Levinson Xintian Li Yichen Ma Arzu Mammadova Brittany Elaine Martin Joshua G. Marx Jessy Nguyen Aislyn Nicole Nishii Sounjong Oh Yiru Pan Jennie Sungah Park Fangxi Qin Caitlin Emily Quiat* Sailee Rangole
Bronx, New York Changsha, China Los Angeles, California Lima, Peru Changde, China Nanjing, China Dezhou, China Zhanjiang, China Hanzhong, China Woodland Hills, California Sacramento, California Plainsboro, New Jersey Benicia, California Macungie, Pennsylvania Lima, Peru Shenzhen, China Manitou Springs, Colorado Yantai, China Wuhan, China Bethesda, Maryland Guangzhou, China Okemos, Michigan Seoul, Republic of Korea Redondo Beach, California Harbin, China Zhengzhou, China Baku, Azerbaijan Canton, Texas San Diego, California Glendora, California Cleves, Ohio Seoul, Republic of Korea Tianjin, China Centreville, Virginia Hangzhou, China Boulder, Colorado Nagpur, India
Nathalia Rio Preto Vieira Machado Sachi Jasmine Salehi Changrui Shi Autumn A. Smith Xinyue Sun Shiyi Tang Kye Teshirogi Lena S. Wakayama Yutong Wang Wang Ziqi Daniel T. Weber Geoffrey Witek* Jing Wu Yuxuan Wu Chengcheng Xu Chen Yao* Ren Yi Hye Ji You Yu Tian Le Jingyuan Zhang Miao Zhang Ruiyao Zhang Danlin Zhao Ashley Zillian*
Brasília, Brazil San Jose, California Wuxi, China Cleveland, Ohio Hangzhou, China Chengdu, China Los Angeles, California San Jose, California Yangquan, China Beijing, China Los Angeles, California Oakland, California Shanghai, China Shenzhen, China Guiyang, China Anhui, China Shanxi, China Pajusi, Republic of Korea Shanghai, China Hongya, China Beijing, China Shenzhen, China Beijing, China Vienna, Virginia
MASTER OF ARTS IN T E AC H I N G E N G L I S H T O S P E A K E R S O F O T H E R L A N G UAG E S
Oliver J. Block* Grace Elizabeth Davis Miranda Jade Doremus-Reznor* S. Aram Guptill Maya Lynn Sykes
San Diego, California Mount Pleasant, Iowa Scottsbluff, Nebraska Berwick, Maine Chicago, Illinois
M A S T E R O F A R T S I N T E AC H I N G F O R E I G N L A N G UAG E
Caleb J. Powers Keyue Song
*With distinction
Houston, Texas Shenyang, China
F L AG S O F M A N Y H O M E L A N D S
Today’s flags represent 217 students from 18 countries. Afghanistan Azerbaijan Brazil Canada China Cuba India Japan Malaysia Mexico Myanmar Palestine Peru Republic of Korea Russia Taiwan United States of America Vietnam
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
BRIAN DEESE ’00
Director of the White House National Economic Council Brian Deese serves as the director of the White House National Economic Council, advising President Biden on domestic and international economic policy and coordinating the economic agenda of the Biden-Harris administration. A former senior advisor to President Barack Obama who was instrumental both in engineering the rescue of the U.S. auto industry and in negotiating the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, Deese is a crisis-tested advisor with broad experience in accelerating economic prosperity, empowering working Americans, and harnessing the economic opportunities that come from building a clean energy economy and combating the climate crisis. Prior to his current role, Deese was global head of sustainable investing at BlackRock, where he worked to drive greater focus on climate and sustainability risk in investment portfolios and create investment strategies to help accelerate the low-carbon transition. During the Obama-Biden administration, Deese served as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget and deputy director of the National Economic Council. Deese received his Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in 2000 and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2008.
G L O BA L C I T I Z E N ’S AWA R D Established in 2018 by President Laurie L. Patton, the Middlebury Global Citizen’s Award is given annually to a person who, through selflessness, compassion, and commitment to open and generous communication, is able to change the world to better serve others—particularly those who have been working out of the limelight, without regard for recognition or reward, but whose efforts have nonetheless had a global impact. The award will alternate annually between Middlebury College and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and will be presented during the May Commencement ceremony. Nominations are solicited from the campus community and reviewed by a committee before the recipient is ultimately selected. The award was not presented in May 2020 due to COVID-19. This year’s recipient is Dr. Gary Slutkin.
GARY SLUTKIN, MD
President and CEO, Cure Violence Global Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist who has led efforts to combat epidemics of tuberculosis, cholera, and AIDS; worked in more than 25 countries in east and central Africa, Latin America, and Asia; and consulted on SARS and Ebola. He was the director of intervention for the World Health Organization and is currently tracking and advising governments on COVID-19. He is also known for innovating with the epidemic control approach and leads the No. 9 NGO in the world, Cure Violence Global. Dr. Slutkin received his MD from the University of Chicago and completed his residency and infectious disease training at UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital. He served as director of the Tuberculosis Program for the City of San Francisco; helped lead efforts to reverse epidemics of tuberculosis and cholera in 40 refugee camps in Somalia; was a founding member of the WHO Global Program on AIDS; and served as director of intervention development at the WHO. Dr. Slutkin is credited with having fully revealed the scientific and practical links for seeing and treating violence more as a standard health epidemic. In 2000 he founded Cure Violence, which has achieved 40–70 percent—and sometimes 100 percent—drops in violence using these methods. Dr. Slutkin speaks regularly at local, national, and global forums including the World Bank, the Institute of Medicine, the World Economic Forum, and the UN. He is a Global Ashoka Fellow and is a senior advisor to the World Health Organization.
STUDENT SPEAKER
R AYNA ROGERS MANP TS ’21
Rayna Rogers will graduate today with an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies with a focus on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Rogers was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Dayton. During her time there she worked at NASA as a mechanical engineer intern in their nozzle branch. After graduating, she moved abroad to South Korea where she taught English for five years, then joined the U.S. Peace Corps where she served as an education volunteer in Indonesia. It was in Indonesia that she was reintroduced to MIIS through a friend and MIIS alum. During her two years at the Institute, Rogers has had a number of unique experiences. She operated a nuclear research reactor (supervised) and wrote about safeguards at a national lab. She is the content director for the West Coast chapter of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) and models missiles for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Rogers hopes to work in nonproliferation and nuclear security.
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS O F M I D D L E B U RY C O L L E G E 2 0 2 0 – 2 0 21 PRESIDENT
Laurie L. Patton CHARTER TRUSTEES
Kirtley Horton Cameron ’95 Allan R. Dragone Jr. ’78 George C. Lee II ’88 Caroline Sneath McBride ’75 Dennis D. Parker ’77
Helen Riess Richard T. Scanlon ’93 Karen A. Stolley ’77 William F. Truscott ’83
TERM TRUSTEES
Belinda L. Badcock Joseph W. Brown ’90 Leilani McClellan Brown ’93 Eve B. Burton Janine Feng ’92 Graham Goldsmith ’89 Parker Harris III ’89 Catherine Lee ’92
Alice Jane Murphy ’98 Suzanne Reider ’87 Henry J. Simonds ’97 Mark D. Spence ’98 John S. Weinberg Larry Yarbrough Kashif Zafar ’92
ALUMNI TRUSTEES
Koby Altman ’04 Zachary Bourque ’01 Denver G. Edwards ’88
Lucienne M. Ide ’97 Anne Davis Peterson ’85 Elizabeth Cromwell Speers ’86
TRUSTEES EMERITI
Dort A. Cameron III ’67 James S. Davis ’66 Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Frederick M. Fritz ’68 Nancy Coffrin Furlong ’75 Claire Waterhouse Gargalli ’64 Robert C. Graham Jr. ’63 Willard T. Jackson ’51 William H. Kieffer III ’64 Roxanne McCormick Leighton ’67 John M. McCardell Jr.
C. Irving Meeker ’50 Patricia Judah Palmer ’57 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Milton V. Peterson ’58 Elisabeth Robert ’78 Frank W. Sesno ’77 Deborah G. Thomas ’75 John R. Tormondsen ’82 Marna C. Whittington Linda Foster Whitton ’80 Kendrick R. Wilson III
M I D D L E B U RY I N S T I T U T E B OA R D O F A DV I S O R S TRUSTEES
Catherine Lee ’92, Chair Lucienne M. Ide ’97, Vice Chair Kirtley Horton Cameron ’95 Parker Harris III ’89 Caroline Sneath McBride ’75 Henry J. Simonds ’97 Karen A. Stolley ’77 John S. Weinberg EMERITI
Churchill G. Franklin ’71 Frederick M. Fritz ’68 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Frank W. Sesno ’77 Linda Foster Whitton ’80 PA R T N E R S
Alison Geballe Deborah Hicks Rich Wolfson CONSTITUENTS
Ashley Arrocha Mahabat Baimyrzaeva Madeleine Smith
A FEW NOTES G R A D UAT I O N W I T H H O N O R S
Master’s degree recipients completing with a cumulative GPA of 4.00 graduate with distinction. Recipients of distinction honors are awarded honors cords. AC K N O W L E D G E M E N T
Special thanks to Professor Mike Gillen for playing the bagpipes leading the processional. And special thanks to our students for providing interpretation during the ceremony. S U P P O R T I N G T H E M I D D L E B U RY I N S T I T U T E A N N UA L F U N D
We are grateful to the generous alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends who support the many facets of an Institute education by donating to the Annual Fund. Your contributions give future students the opportunity to pursue their dreams and lead purposeful lives. Visit go.miis.edu/give to learn more about how to make a gift. CL ASS GIF T
The graduating class gift is an important MIIS tradition that the Class of 2021 is excited to continue in a new way. This year, in lieu of an item for campus, Student Council is pleased to offer a special graduation gift for each graduating student. Congratulations, Class of 2021! G A M A L I E L PA I N T E R ’ S C A N E
Gamaliel Painter’s cane is one of the most treasured artifacts of the College. Once the walking stick of the founder of both the town of Middlebury and the College, today it is carried by the president in the ceremony. It serves as a symbol of institutional strength and character.
M I D D L E B U RY I N S T I T U T E O F I N T E R N AT I O N A L S T U D I E S AT M O N T E R E Y The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey offers its students a wide range of professional degrees to prepare them for careers in fields including international business, development, education, environmental policy, language teaching, and translation and interpretation. The Institute’s 700 students come from more than 50 countries around the world and together with the faculty share a deep interest in, and commitment to, global engagement and cross-cultural communication. Since its founding in 1955, the Institute has developed leading programs in these diverse fields of study. Today it is home to a wide range of research centers and initiatives, including the renowned James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the Center for the Blue Economy, and the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, among others. Founded in 1800, Middlebury College has long been recognized as one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country. The College provides its 2,500 undergraduate students with a rigorous liberal arts education and a wide range of opportunities to pursue interests and experiences outside the classroom. The Institute became affiliated with Middlebury College in 2005 and was fully integrated as a graduate school of Middlebury in 2010. It was formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies (1979 to 2015) and the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies (1955 to 1979). Other Middlebury schools and programs include the Middlebury Language Schools, the Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad, the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, and the Middlebury School of the Environment.
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