spring commencement monterey, california saturday, may 21, 2022
MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY
Commencement Exercises and Conferring of Degrees
5 PROCESSIONAL
Please rise for the processional WELCOME
Jeff Dayton-Johnson Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Institute Laurie L. Patton Middlebury President COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Fatema Z. Sumar STUDENT SPEAKER
Meng Zhang MAT ’22 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 Laura Burian, Dean Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education
C L O S I N G R E M A R KS
Vice President Jeff Dayton-Johnson RECESSIONAL
Please remain seated for the recessional RECEPTION
Please join us for a celebration at the Samson Student Center
5 P R E S I D E N T ’ S PA R T Y
Laurie L. Patton Fatema Z. Sumar Meng Zhang Gael Meraud Laura Burian Fernando DePaolis Jeff Dayton-Johnson
5 GRAND MARSHAL
Kent Glenzer FAC U LT Y M A R S H A L
Katherine Punteney Faculty Senate President and Professor Graduate School of International Policy and Management
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
Manhattan, Kansas Salinas, California Overland Park, Kansas Evanston, Illinois Denton, Texas
Robert Raider Fowler Maximilian James Keller Gomez Anna E. Navran Gabrielle Aya O’Connor * Makenzie Elizabeth Stallo *
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
Sophie Lena Anolick Tabitha Ann Birdwell Elise Louise Birkett Olivia Cable-Barber Marina Breana Chavez Alexandra S. Cleveland Heather Carol Cook Alexandra John Eisinger Raumia Fahad Dillon Scott Green Grace Anne Hansen Anne Katherine Howley * Thomas E. Lynch Alice McGown Bridget Mulkerin Samuel Blaze Naujokas Akira Nishiyama Megan Maureen O’Leary Mary E. Pantenburg Moira Ellen Pieri * Nicholas Albert Rahaim Laura Cristina Sanchez Louise A. Shurvinton Bradley Diane Michelle Sikkens
Evanston, Illinois Sulphur, Louisiana Claremont, California Dallas, Texas Marietta, Georgia Milwaukee, Wisconsin York, Pennsylvania Carmel Valley, California Nooksack, Washington Fremont, California Timonium, Maryland Sebastopol, California San Luis Obispo, California Los Angeles, California Branchburg, New Jersey Healdsburg, California Imari, Japan New York, New York Monterey, California Camden, Maine Putnam, Connecticut Lake Worth, Florida Santa Rosa, California Auburn, Alabama
Larissa Mai Sison Julia Grace Stasiuk Emily Murphy Stokes Tessa Varvares Richard Vasquez Jr. Howie Vogt * Elisabeth C. von Halem * Sarah Angon Wickman Alexis C. Wilkman
Seaside, California West Newbury, Massachusetts Des Moines, Washington Boston, Massachusetts San Jose, California Louisville, Kentucky Granada, Nicaragua Somerset, California Pleasanton, California
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
Saif Tarek Abdelrasol Jessica Ariel Adam Kimberly Isabell Arevalo Courtney M. Cano Alicia Serena Clark Alexandra M. Gamble Leiming Gong Jinhan Hu Seir Alexander Khan Ellen L. King Ruth Krabacher Sangsun Lee Lameese Ahmed Madi Ryan P. McCauley Daron McDonnaugh Owen James MkNelly Aicha Fathia Mohammed Iya Sarah Mackenzie Mortensen Alexandra Kay Patton Isabella Grace Petros-Weber Jonathan Michael Pike Mona Maria Rezvani Alexis Rashelle Roberts Alyssa Kaylin Serrano Peter Julian Stewart
Cairo, Egypt Monterey, California Sioux Falls, South Dakota Newport Beach, California Boulder Creek, California Los Altos, California Taiyuan, China Hefei, China Wilmington, Delaware Auburn, California Woodland, California Daejeon, Republic of Korea Kansas City, Kansas Ketchum, Idaho Charlotte, North Carolina Davis, California Garoua, Cameroon Franklin, Michigan Santa Clara, California Sonoma, California Exeter, New Hampshire Washington, District of Columbia Arcata, California Visalia, California Santa Ana, California
Charlotte Andrea Thompson Katherine Meredith Treat Monique Vanden’Aklie Steven Paul Vetarbo Suyu Yang
Boulder, Colorado Chatham, Massachusetts Bend, Oregon Yigo, Guam Kunming, China
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
Alexandra M. Gamble Seir Alexander Khan Sarah Mackenzie Mortensen Kalin Royal Bryan Thomas
Los Altos, California Wilmington, Delaware Franklin, Michigan Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Ernesto Aguirre Noah T. Aimar Kennedy Ann Allen Dylan Michael Arthaud Isabela Najm Bernardo Michael Boice Grace Zara Borges Trevor Daniel Brown Lindsay Leslie Bryda Steven Dexter De La Fuente Sarah Elise Erickson Myles Flores Sanjana Gogna Hubert Yu Hayashi Jessica Roxana Juarez Grace M. Knopp Chase Joseph LeMay Monica R. Lemmon Patrick McNamara John Michael Mettler Israel C. Perez Brandon Edward Pettit
San Francisco, California Newport Beach, California Gilbert, Arizona Charlotte, Vermont Monterey, California Charlotte, North Carolina Washington, District of Columbia Jacksonville, Oregon Washington, District of Columbia Monterey, California Tucson, Arizona Los Angeles, California Delhi, India São Paulo, Brazil Los Angeles, California Lakewood, Colorado Clinton, Connecticut Santa Clara, California Rockville Centre, New York Elyria, Ohio Salinas, California Patterson, New York
Hollis Parker Rammer
Robert Parra Sanchez Kaya Schaffner Brian Dean Scheu Devon N. Scholz Monica Patricia Spohn Skyler Stokes Dana Maxime Olmer Weinberg Noelle Maria Mancini-Zesky
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Oxnard, California New York, New York Castaic, California Silver Spring, Maryland Berkeley, California Santa Barbara, California South Lake Tahoe, California Kirkville, New York
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
Christopher Isac Baca Keyana M. Baerga Alexa R. Cardello Benjamin D. Croy Caroline Daughtery Julianna L. DeNike Robert Raider Fowler Maximilian James Keller Gomez Natasha Lara Leahy Isabelle Hood Ariol Korreshi Kayla Dawn Lightfoot Naomi Lyles Taylor Jaye Morgan Anna E. Navran Natalie Paige Rambis * Zoë K. Robb Madeleine Elizabeth Smith Wendkouni Cynthia C. Tiendrebeogo Karyos Montrez Tyus Miaoyan Wang Taylor Zerby
San Diego, California Bronx, New York Annapolis, Maryland Joplin, Missouri Bakersfield, California Santa Cruz, California Manhattan, Kansas Salinas, California London, United Kingdom Sterling Heights, Michigan Port Orange, Florida Houma, Louisiana Rocklin, California Overland Park, Kansas Burlington, Vermont Martinez, California New York, New York Los Angeles, California China Newberry, Michigan
B AC H E L O R O F A R T S I N I N T E R N AT I O N A L P O L I CY
Isabela Najm Bernardo Trevor Daniel Brown Alexa R. Cardello Naomi Lyles Madeleine Elizabeth Smith Miaoyan Wang
Monterey, California Jacksonville, Oregon Annapolis, Maryland Houma, Louisiana Martinez, California China
C E R T I F I C AT E I N N O N P R O L I F E R AT I O N S T U D I E S
Alexander Christian Frongillo *
*With distinction
Milton, Massachusetts
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
Chih-Yuan Chen (TI) Chen Geyu (TI) Chen Jingyi (T) Yann-Ru Ching (T) Yijia Ding (CI) Yue He (CI) Yi Jiang * (T) Jiang Zequn (TI) Min Kao (TI) Chuiqing Kong (CI) Anran Li (CI) Eli Li (CI) Huihui Verona Li (TI) Liu Hoi Nam Hannah (CI) Lei Liu (CI) Xinyun Lu (CI) Xiya Luo (T) (Colin) Zhe Luo (CI) Lina Lyn (CI) Chaoran Ma (T) Cheng Shen (TI) Leqi Sun (CI) Teng Jingya (TI) Shiyuan Wang (TI) Xuanwen Wang (T) Leah Grace Wank (T) Hsin-Ju Wei (T) Yu Wei (CI) Yating Wu (T)
Tainan, Taiwan Chengdu, China Jiaxing, China Taichung City, Taiwan Huzhou, China Shanghai, China Beijing, China Shenzhen, China New Taipei City, Taiwan Tianjin, China Beijing, China Shijiazhuang, China Shenzhen, China Hong Kong Beijing, China Shanghai, China Wuhan, China Hefei, China Nanjing, China Kunming, China Shanghai, China Xi’an, China Nanjing, China Hangzhou, China Ningbo, China Wheaton, Illinois Changhua, Taiwan Yunnan, China Shanghai, China
Ying-Ting Wu (T) Tuojin Yin (TI) Haiping Zhan (CI) Meng Zhang (T) Mengchu Zhang (CI) Shihao Zhang (TI) Yiyi Zhang (TI) Chenye Zhu (TI) Eve Qiuyi Zhu (CI) Zhu Keying (TI)
Taipei, Taiwan Beijing, China Sydney, Australia Haddonfield, New Jersey Chengdu, China Jieyang, China Nantong, China Nantong, China Beijing, China Shaoxing, China
FRENCH
Julia Emily Benson (CI) Clara Florence Clymer (T) Stephanie Dawn Felt (T) Mariah Virginia Petty Rust (T) Matthew Schetina (TI) William Kole Wright (TI)
Monterey, California Los Angeles, California Minneapolis, Minnesota St. Johnsbury, Vermont Glendale, California Rose Hill, Kansas
GERMAN
Ioana Lobontiu (CI) Emma Ann Roach (TI)
Anchorage, Alaska Ithaca, New York
JA PA N E S E
Qianxue Jin (T) Nanako Komatsubara (TI) Nicholas Grant Kontje (TI) Tsukumo Niwa Sattler (CI)
Beijing, China Tokyo, Japan San Diego, California Yokohama, Japan
KO R E A N
Hong Yoomi (CI)
Seoul, Republic of Korea
RUSSIAN
Valeriya Yermishova (CI)
Brooklyn, New York
S PA N I S H
Maria Teresa Acosta Jacobs (TI) Whitni J. Battle (TI)
New York City, New York Dallas, Texas
Lauren Millar Biglow (TI) Alexander Halatsis (T) Daniel Morris Hurwitz-Goodman (TI) Simaranjit Kaur (T) Audrey Linnette Meshulam (TI) Leilani Padilla-Young (TI) Alison Leah Silverstein (CI)
Los Altos, California Alameda, California Detroit, Michigan Woburn, Massachusetts Sebastopol, California Monterey, California Monterey, California
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
Aleria Mei Amaral Grizelda Emily Ambriz Helen L. Bartlett Giulia Bertoli Shuming (Koni) Chen * Xiao Chen Yifan Chen * Jiang Chu Ekaterina Chudinova Emily Hrivnak Cipriani Allison Corcoran * Diana Dai Xiaoxin Chen Damerow * William Dan Christopher Aaron Dean Salam Omeys Defar Jing Ding Yutong Du Lijun Gu * Marianna Guédez Forgiarini Satoko Gruson Siying Guo Wen He Xinxin Huang Juno Jang Simone Hadid Klass Chen-Lan Lee
Monterey, California Oxnard, California Murfreesboro, Tennessee Brescia, Italy San Francisco, California Beijing, China Taizhou, China Beijing, China Kopeysk, Russia Westerville, Ohio Granby, Connecticut Guangzhou, China Chongqing, China Taipei, Taiwan Hattiesburg, Mississippi Seattle, Washington Tianjin, China Chengdu, China Shanghai, China Barquisimeto, Venezuela Tokyo, Japan Guangzhou, China Chongqing, China Wenzhou, China Busan, Republic of Korea Monterey, California Hsinchu, Taiwan
Yahui Li Shih-Ping Liang Bowen Liao Ziwen Liu Yen Ting Low * Elena Michelle Malamed Jonathan Christian Merz Robert Movradinov Quintero Luke A. Paustian Albert Chi Phan Maryll Elisan Phillips * Olivia M. Plowman Shashi Laxman Renukuntla Olga Y. Samoylova Misaki Sato * Catherine Ann Shasteen Liruo Shen Jingfei Shi Sook Kyung Shin Lin (Diane) Song Luz Emilia Soto Galindo * Gary Soza Naomi Stock Annamaria Szvoboda * Francesca Tantussi * Andrew H. Taylor Hsin-Wei Tseng * Hanchun Wang Yifan Wang Connor Scott Wertz Yijun Wu Wei Xu Runyu Ye Wei Yuan Keqiu Zang Baoze Zhang Junyi Zhang * Shiyu Zhang Chenye Zhu
Guangzhou, China Taiwan Chengdu, China Shijiazhuang, China Foster City, California Birchrunville, Pennsylvania Atlanta, Georgia Manizales, Colombia Tenafly, New Jersey Charlotte, North Carolina San Diego, California Hampden, Maine Mumbai, India San Jose, California Tokyo, Japan Collinsville, Illinois Nanjing, China Guangzhou, China Seoul, Republic of Korea Shanghai, China Durango, Mexico Fort Lauderdale, Florida Portland, Oregon Monterey, California Florence, Italy Thornton, Colorado Taipei, Taiwan Jingdezhen, China Harbin, China San Diego, California Dongying, China Chengdu, China Nanjing, China Beijing, China Beijing, China Yuncheng, China Shijiazhuang, China Anyang, China Nantong, China
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
Kira Arias-La Rheir * Austin Graham Cashwell Burcu M. Chatham * Priscilla Marie Downey * Jada Caprice Downing Zoya Shamraj Erdevig * Kathryn Anne Klein Sharon Situ * Kristen Anne Tuttle * Donna Gail Workman
Santa Cruz, California Richmond, Virginia San Diego, California Oakdale, New York Virginia Beach, Virginia Ann Arbor, Michigan Bellingham, Washington Los Angeles, California Fort Gratiot, Michigan Boone County, West Virginia
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
Giulia Beccarelli Mujun Hu Lauren Hi’ilani Wilmore *
*With distinction
Parma, Italy Wuhan, China Pasadena, California
RETURNING GRADUATES MASTER OF ARTS IN C O N F E R E N C E I N T E R P R E TAT I O N , C H I N E S E
Rong “Rony” Gao Shuhui (Sophie) Huang Xinyu Liu Zhouyi Qian Yikai Wang
May 2021 May 2020 August 2021 May 2021 August 2021
MASTER OF ARTS IN T R A N S L AT I O N A N D I N T E R P R E TAT I O N , C H I N E S E
Rui Xue
May 2020
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
Eun Kyung Ann Cho Jamie Chu Tian Jue (Tony) He Xingchen Hu Tianlin Li Xintian (Cindy) Li Jing Wu Jingyuan Zhang
May 2020 May 2021 May 2020 May 2020 May 2020 May 2021 May 2021 May 2021
F L AG S O F M A N Y H O M E L A N D S
Today’s flags represent 259 students from 20 homelands. Albania Australia Brazil Cameroon China Colombia Egypt Hong Kong India Italy Japan Libya Mexico Republic of Korea Russia Taiwan Turkey United Kingdom United States Venezuela
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 40 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. Through a commitment to immersive learning, Middlebury prepares students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world’s most challenging problems. 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.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
FATEMA Z . SUMAR
Leveraging her expertise in international development, foreign policy, diplomacy, and advocacy, Fatema Z. Sumar leads efforts to fight poverty by transforming global systems in reaching vulnerable populations. She is the author of the book, The Development Diplomat: Working Across Borders, Boardrooms, and Bureaucracies to End Poverty. Ms. Sumar most recently served as the vice president of Compact Operations at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a role appointed by President Biden. She oversaw all the agency’s compacts, which are MCC’s signature grant investment vehicle to reduce poverty through economic growth around the world. She managed MCC’s technical and regional divisions working on infrastructure, the environment and climate change, the private sector, gender and social inclusion, human and community development, land and agriculture, procurement, financial management, strategic partnerships, and contracts and grant management. She previously served as MCC’s deputy vice president for Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America. Ms. Sumar has a distinguished career in the U.S. government in both executive and legislative branches. She previously served as the deputy assistant secretary for South and Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State, where she led U.S. efforts to expand regional economic and energy connectivity, and as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF). In Congress, she was a senior professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the broader region.
In civil society, Ms. Sumar was the vice president of global programs at Oxfam America, where she oversaw regional development and humanitarian response to fight the injustice of poverty. Her leadership contributed to initiatives on gender justice, climate justice, local humanitarian leadership, strategic monitoring and evaluation, digital rights, and grant management systems. Early in her career, she also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union. Ms. Sumar sits on advisory boards for Princeton, Cornell, and Indiana Universities and on the advisory council for Muslim Americans in Public Service. She has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the New Republic, the Hill, and other outlets. She is a frequent guest speaker and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Ms. Sumar graduated with a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where she received the prestigious Stokes Award, and a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University. She studied abroad at the American University in Cairo. She is the proud mother of three daughters.
STUDENT SPEAKER
MENG ZHANG MAT ’22
Meng “Barbara” Zhang graduates today with an MA in Translation. Born and raised in China, she received a bachelor’s in international trade from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in Dalian, China, and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Rutgers University in New Jersey. A seasoned business consultant, she has more than two decades of experience in international trade, project financing, marketing, and education. She has a passion for building strong local communities, and her deep dedication to volunteer services is evident in her many activities. Last year, as a first-year student, she and a Middlebury Institute classmate cofounded Translators for Elders (TFE). Today, TFE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization helping thousands of underprivileged families overcome language barriers. The TFE Speaker Series has brought world-renowned speakers to the MIIS community, the TFE internship program and localization practicum have encouraged dozens of MIIS student participants and, in collaboration with the interpretation practicum, TFE speaker events have provided opportunities for Translation and Interpretation and Conference Interpretation students to practice simultaneous interpretation.
Beyond this, Barbara has been well known on campus, having worked as a graduate assistant in the Office of the Vice President, served as the Translation, Translation and Interpretation, and Conference Interpretation program representative on the Student Council, and worked with the Institute’s Housing Committee and the first MIIS Values Committee, helping ensure the MIIS values statement reflects the perspectives of all stakeholders. Barbara is a self-described lifelong learner. Her current projects include translating a historical novel, Across the Great Divide, from English to Chinese.
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS O F M I D D L E B U RY C O L L E G E 2 0 21– 2 0 2 2 PRESIDENT
Laurie L. Patton CHARTER TRUSTEES
Kirtley Horton Cameron ’95 Allan R. Dragone Jr. ’78 Catherine Lee ’92 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 Barbara G. Cole Janine Feng ’92 Graham Goldsmith ’89 Parker Harris III ’89 Lucienne M. Ide ’97
Carol L. Jones 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
Anne Davis Peterson ’85 Elizabeth Cromwell Speers ’86 Danielle S. Virtue ’82
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
Garrett M. Moran ’76 Patricia Judah Palmer ’57 Kimberly Collins Parizeau ’79 Elisabeth Robert ’78 Frank W. Sesno ’77 Deborah G. Thomas ’75 John R. Tormondsen ’82 J. Edward Virtue ’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 2 0 21– 2 0 2 2 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 Elaine White Gómez ’93 Rich Wolfson CONSTITUENTS
Ashley Arrocha Mahabat Baimyrzaeva Morgan Moore
A FEW NOTES G R A D UAT I O N W I T H H O N O R S
Undergraduate students completing all degree requirements with a record of high academic achievement are awarded traditional Latin honors: cum laude (3.50–3.74), magna cum laude (3.75–3.89), and summa cum laude (3.9–4.0). Master’s degree recipients completing with a cumulative GPA of 4.00 graduate with distinction. Recipients of summa cum laude and distinction honors are awarded honors cords. COMMENCEMENT RECEPTION
The Middlebury Institute has a long tradition of sustainable practices and innovative initiatives. In 2015, we adopted a policy of featuring at least 50 percent plant-based food at all official Institute events where food is served. In that spirit, and in an effort to meet our sustainability policy goals, we are proud to serve 100 percent plant-based foods at today’s Commencement reception. PHOTOS
A photo area is available near the front of the stage on the right. To help alleviate congestion, please remain in your seats and proceed to this area only when your graduate is ready to receive a diploma. Thank you for your cooperation. The Communications Office is pleased to offer complimentary Commencement ceremony photographs to our graduating students, courtesy of Robert Ellis Photography. Details will be provided via email once photos become available. AC K N O W L E D G M E N T
Special thanks to Professor Mike Gillen for playing the bagpipes leading the processional. Thanks to our students for providing interpretation for guests during today’s 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. This year, to advance its mission of DEI and anti-racism, Student Council has allocated $2,000 toward the land acknowledgment effort to bolster the work of the DEI Committee. This gift will help commission a physical land acknowledgment at MIIS, symbolizing our commitment to this important cause. Congratulations, Class of 2022! 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.