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Land Acknowledgement
Mission
Schedule
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Education
Division of Policy, Organizations, Leadership and Systems
Higher Education
Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management
Educational Leadership
Education and Organizational Leadership
Penn Chief Learning Officer
Division of Learning, Teaching, and Literacy
Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
Literacy Studies
Master of Philosophy in Education
Division of Human Development and Quantitative Methods
Professional Counseling
Quantitative Methods
Master of Science in Education
Division of Educational Linguistics
Intercultural Communication
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Division of Human Development & Quantitative Methods
Statistics, Measurement, Assessment, and Research
Technology (SMART)
Executive Program in School and Mental Health
Counseling
Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development
Division of Learning, Teaching, and Literacy
Independent School Teaching Residency
Learning Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Literacy Studies
Teaching, Learning and Leadership
Urban Teaching Residency
Urban Teaching Apprenticeship
Divisions
Systems
Education,
Education Entrepreneurship
Education Policy
Global
Higher
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge the Indigenous Lenape people (also called Lenni-Lenape or Delaware) as the original inhabitants of the region now occupied by the University of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia. Indigenous people have lived here for at least 10,000 years; their ancestral lands, historically known as Lenapehoking, encompass parts of present-day eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey and southern New York state These lands are still marked with Lenape names today, including: Passyunk (from Packsegonk, meaning “in the valley”); Wissahickon (from Wisameckhan, meaning “catfish stream”); Kingsessing (from Chingsessing, meaning “place of the meadow”); and Manayunk (meaning “place where we go to drink,” the original name for the Schuylkill River), among many others.
During the late 1600s into the 1700s, the pressures of colonial settler land thefts and hostilities forced most of the Lenape people to leave their homelands and move westward. Today, Lenape tribal nations include the Delaware Tribe of Indians and Delaware Nation (in present-day Oklahoma); the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Ramapough Lenape, and Powhatan Renape (in present-day New Jersey); the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans (in present-day Wisconsin); and the Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown) and Munsee Delaware (in present-day Ontario, Canada).
Interim President: J. Larry Jameson
Provost: John L. Jackson, Jr.
Dean: Katharine O. Strunk
Our Mission: Penn GSE partners with schools, universities, and communities to expand educational access – especially for those underserved by society. Through rigorous research and innovative programs, we develop new knowledge, and transformational teachers and leaders in pursuit of educational opportunity.
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S C H E D U L E
Opening Remarks
Leslie Levin - Vice Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs
Welcome
Dr. Katharine O. Strunk - Dean, Graduate School of Education
Commencement Speaker
Dr. Angela Duckworth - The Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty codirector of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative.
Presentation of 2025 Graduates
Leslie Levin - Vice Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs
Closing Remarks
Leslie Levin - Vice Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs
Recessional
Laura G Ogburn
Division of Policy, Organizations, Leadership and Systems
Higher Education
Kobie Alexander Smith
Corrinne Alia Elizabeth Fahl
Monica Ionescu
Viraj S Patel
Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management
Jamiere Nakee Abney
Theresa Rose Kevorkian
Elijah Bach
Otgonbat Barkhuu
Tiffany Clayton
Sherman Cowan
Jason E Cronk
Patrick Day
Lucia Dinapoli
Darlery Franco
Theresa Gant Golding
Emmanual An'Twain Guillory
Sylvia He
Rene-Joseph Joseph Carpio Holmes-Leopold
Michelle Lewis
Jason Locke
Adriana Victoria Lopez
Karen Taggart McComb
Derek Edward Miller
Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management
Oghene Oyiborhoro
Beth Hassey Prieto
Serena Rao
Paul L Richards
Patrick Sexton
Stuart James Shilson
Ed Smith-Lewis
Tesenga Smith
Rajeev Sooreea
Nicole A Thomas
Missy Ann Vitek
ChenXin Xu
Hend Ismail Zainal
Victoria Zyp
Educational Leadership
Megan C MacDonald
Education and Organizational Leadership
Rob Robinson Andrews
Rita Alejandra Gracián Flores
Jeff Scott Greenley
Lianne Laura Hughes-Shackelford
Crystal Doris Lane
Meredith Mehra
Lauren Overton
Lara Paparo
Andrew Peter Phillips
Susan E Thompson
Beth Vaccaro
William James Woodruff
Sean Woytek
Education
and Organizational Leadership
(cont’d)
Andre Zarate
Steve Andrew Brown
Andrew Wayne Cortese
Tashon Danette Diaz- Haywood
Molly Ann Gosline
Chris Hancock
Verone Henry Kennedy
Frances Hamilton Kraft
David Miller
Eva Nia Mitchell
Hadley Squires Ruggles
Yifang Yu
Corey Atkins
Ashley Lewis Baldwin
Casey Bardin
Kesha Ann Bascombe
Caroline Frances Braun
Cory Carter
Erica C. Davis - Stribling
Karen Michele Drezner
Yiyong or Richard Feng
Rorujorona Ferrell
Jasmin Esparza Gomez
Jared Hall
Regina Nalini Hardatt
T.S. Hoard
Dave Lazarus
John Procter Maynard
Haruka Mori
Jeffrey James Noel
Gilberto E Olvera
Eva Andrea Porter
Division of Learning, Teaching, and Literacy
Teaching, Learning, and Teacher
Education
Adina Goldstein
Vinay Mallikaarjun
Literacy Studies
Ayoung N Lee
Ericka Graciela Staufert Reyes
Yael Anastasia Haislip
Master of Philosophy in Education
Division of Human Development and Quantitative Methods
Professional Counseling Caleigh Barber
Sarah Elizabeth Bowman
Mingyue Deng
Lauren Nicole deTorres
Yueyi Fan
Macy Elizabeth Gray
Vion He
Alyssa Michelle Holcomb
Chenmin Hua
Qiwen Jin
Yixin Ke
Caroline Joy Kopczynski
Claire Liao
Brandon Lin
Zihan Ling
Chukai Lu
Penny Lyu
Alicia Christina Mackle
Colette Elise McCord-Snook
Alison McDonald
Yu Han
Devin Johnson
Andi Li
Tianyi Liang
Ziyi Shao
Jinwei Shi
He Tang
Yuan Xu
Yuri Yang
Fiona Yao
Tianyun Zhang
Fleabane Zhao
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Yujun Huang
Jia Jia
Chen Kang
Nobuya Kitajima
Meiyu Pan
Jiayi Qi
Mengran Shu
Mingge Wang
Michelle Yu
Jiawen Zhang
Zishi Zhang
Meng Zhou
Zhiwei Zhu
Mengying Bian
Jingyi Chen
Shaylee Tian Chen
Shuheng Chen
Xi Chen
Zijing Chen
Ziyu Dai
Leishan Deng
Lu Deng
Sharee DeVose
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (cont’d)
Chen Yang
Ailun Zhang
Heqi Zhang
Yaxin Zhang
Yihan Zhang
Yuhan Zhang
Jin Zhong
Shiqi Zhong
Nanxi Zhou
Division of Human Development & Quantitative Methods
Statistics, Measurement, Assessment, and Research Technology (SMART)
Kexi Chen
Rue Chen
Yiyi Deng
Pema Euden
Zhaoxun Feng
Zhuoran Han
Jie Yee Lim
Ruolin Liu
Zehua Liu
Anita Dwinata Lubis
Tao Pang
Yizhou Shan
Haichen Wang
Meini Wang
Xingqi Wei
Xuqing Wu
Pairan Xu
Emma Yang
Fan Yang
Cindy Yao
Zhijun Ye
Yujie Zhang
Xuanying Zhao
Joselyn Angeles-Figueroa
Statistics, Measurement, Assessment, and Research Technology (SMART) (cont‘d)
Andy Zhong
Haowen Li
Zhiqing Ouyang
Ailan Yu
Mingyi Zhang
Victoria Schneller
Zhiqiang Xu
Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling
Alexis Georgette Arbutina
Jack Christian Chiacchiere
Leah Collins
Edward Ticozy Cotton
Megan Joy Coyne
Katya Fish
Meredith Erin Gaynor
Asia Rose IrgangLaden
Chloe Kim
Joanna May Patmore
Jo Jill Pittman
Katelyn Polykoff
Elissa Rosenberg
Julia Margaret Stilwell
Joan Angela Taylor
Macawi Thomas-EL
Ben A Wasman
Ashley Nicole Matias Matos
Jiahao Ran
Lin Shang
Garrett Zhu
Zhuxuan Dong
Garcia Han
Yuehan Hong
Ruike Li
Mianning Yang
Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling (cont’d)
Melody Zhao
Tingyi Zu
Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development
Hathaway Deng
Zihan Gao
Ian Griffith
Tingshu Liang
Feifei Liu
Elizabeth Camille Lockerby
Junguang Long
Rihua Min
Kaiyu Qin
Sirou Wang
Jianing Wei
Jinze Yang
Shimeng Yang
Lewen Zhang
Tianyi Zhang
Ziyu Liu
Wantong Li
Haonan Pi
Nafisah Ray
Cheska Wang
Jessie Ye
Pengmei Zhang
Wenyin Zhang
Vivi Zou
Division
of Learning, Teaching,
and Literacy
Independent School Teaching Residency
Hannah Jane Antonellis
Taylor Gabrielle Serina Braswell
Karen Vanessa Buitrago
Tyler Allen Cochrane
Kaiyah Corona
Iliana Niyae Correa
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Eva Chen
Vedya Spurthi Konda
Emilia Kuang
Haipei Li
Lydia Li
Tang Li
Rose Liu
Sammy Liu
Ying-Hong Lu
Jaleesa Darice Parks
Shiqi Qiu
LongQi Sun
Rowena Tang
Stella Wang
Yuqian Wang
Yiqin Xu
Emily Yan
Joy Yu
Linda Zeng
Wanyun Zhang
Lisa Zhong
Zihan Cao
Anna B Leventhal
Qimu Liang
Rainy Phrompechrut
Wren Andrea Remy
Ruby Ren
Jack Han Zhong Wan
Raine Zhao
Yue Zhao
Kenna Alexandra Barrett
Gabriela Fajardo Bocanegra
Zoe Lai
Samuel Mc Donald
Jyoti Poonia
Learning Sciences and Technologies (cont
’d)
Catherine Theresia Roeroe
Asep Suryana
Amanda Tran
Emerson Riley Wright
Jessie Xu
Literacy
Studies
Tingyu Feng
Lauren Carmelita McVeigh
Laura Dormans Murdoch
Zhili Wang
Charlotte Tenney Wiesenberg
Abby Marie Baker
Claire Helen Bowman
Yuan Cao
Alice Chen
Kristen Louise Clair
Joanna Han
Re'Jon Tremir Jones
Chloe Leeds
Tyra Faith McCombs
Que Min
Ruth Marie Neils
Maggie Qian
Hannah Rodriguez
Julia Pearl Ronkin
Ranran Song
Lubin Suo
Gianna Dorothy Tully
Jiachen Wu
Chia Chun Yu
Amanda Zhang
Yifan Zhang
Yuan Zhang
Yinan Zuo
Zhenghao Chen
Teaching, Learning and Leadership (cont’d)
Zi Xun
Christina Yiqiu Yang
Alice Zeng
Xinyi Zhang
Jianan Zhao
Urban Teaching Residency
Ella Isabel Komita Moussa
Owen Ledebur
Nina Caroline Kasdin
Evan Michael Dietrich
Zipporah Moses
Kevin Alcides Quintanilla
Ella Lia Varney
Aaron B Adler
Jabria Barker-Moody
Kathryn Elise Brashier
Isra Elshafei
Ana Campos Garfinkel
Katie Elizabeth Johnson
Marques Kitchen
Casey Ireland Mellon
Julia Melnick
Donna Rouse
Christopher Sung
Sophia L Tornay
Monica Underwood
Haeli Warren
Aliyah I. Williams
Lauren Elizabeth Sichel
Becky Chen
Jamilah Deborah Jones
Tawnie Glen Pedersen
Liz Cabrera
Ben Lawrence O'Neill
Mikenzie Blagmon
Caitie Marie Brook
Urban Teaching Residency (cont’d)
Gabi Alissa Elaine Girton
Chuck William Krieger
Kai Theresa Lashley-Wright
Tru Aneva Smith
Christabel Asamoah Yeboah
Irene Mihae Chung
Erika Feurtado
Macy Katherine Galante
Annabel Veronica Gavin
Gene Carducci Gravett
Destinee Dymond Odom
Moriah Simone Taylor
Atika Azouz
Lillian Patricia Cadet
Shaniya-Marie Hill
Rashad Scott
Mackenzie Ann Shirk
Elizabeth Rebecca Balabayev
Dacey Jackson
Kayleigh Kubit
Kwayera Wilkerson
Cydney Jade Brown
Jordan Alyssa Grier
Hassan Kessonga Hodge-Hollington
Quenell Lashae Mason
Kayla Carol Tillery
Logan Roberts
Michelle Ferguson
Maggie Jeanne Garrett
Robert Benjamin Jaffe
Fayre Khalique
Amelia Silvy Marx
Cameron Prunier
Michelle Anne Reingold
Rachel Julianna Rofman
Will Joseph Sayers
Divisions of Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems
Education, Culture and Society
Mijal Ruth Altmann
Kanza Hussan
Analia Paz Susana Munoz Dobson
Nancy Shen
Caroline Penn Weaver
Yingchen Xia
Xuan Yang
Katie Cao
Lidwina Limunga Bell
Dwaune D Latimer
Hidy Li
Lulu Mao
Shoshana Vanessa Rivas Martinez
Jessica Sass
Yushan Wang
Kelly Yu
Sam Bello
Diana Carmona
Allie Cobb
Di Li
Rachel Emily Marcus
Education Entrepreneurship
Vinya Agbor
Oybek Aitbaev
Alim Anggono
Tala Banaja
Erin Be
Faith Destiny Brown
Caitlin Brunton- Knowles
Zhongzheng Cai
Elise Rika Chan
Bliss JeUn Chang
Runze Chen
Scott Scott Clendaniel
Education Entrepreneurship (cont’d)
Jennifer Xu
Hellen J. Yu
Yanyu Zhao
Education Policy
Lixin Chen
Chloe Jiang
Xinyue Wu
Mikayla S Cassidy
TJ Calvin Elliott
Caterina Rose Farole
Tash Folkes
Zimo Hao
Wanting Hu
Rebecca Luyao Kang
Camryn Denise Little
Allan Fytone Maganga
Kate Morgan McHale
Shelbi McNulty
Demi Palmer
Emma Marie Rieser
Keishon Nathaniel Rose
Shuyao Song
Yiru Tu
Owen Henry Vadala
Chenming Wang
Jing Wang
Junbo Wang
Vera Wang
Jiwei Ye
Jonathan Zabala
Sihan Zhang
Gehan Zhao
Education Policy (cont’d)
Xinyi Zhong
Taoyi Huang
Diane Kang
Zhuohang Li
Leo Tsang
Lijun Zhang
Global Higher Education Management
Sarah Corbeau Bauman
John Haggerty
Umi Ilana Keezing
Matt Joseph Linton
Nigel Lum Cox
Sasha Madinie Lussaint
Katie Merrill
Jodi Melissa Radosh
Lavi Lavi Wilson
Higher Education
Erynne Alexzandria Browning
Laura Eileen Gallo
Lily Li
Carol Perez Quezada
Jingzhe Qi
Kevin Strong
June Zhang
Yufan Zhang
Emily Alexis Boden
Suzannah Bretz
Kayla T Caldwell
Olivia Keilani Cheche
Nicole H Contosta
Cody Bangcaya Dawson
Bianca Marisa Del Rio
Hanh Theresa Dinh
Maria Devya Diyaljee
Higher Education (cont’d)
Basel Mohammad El-Shrafi
Dennis Espejo
Angela K Goldston
Katie Ippolito
Dennis Langlois
Kevin Lin
Jenna Xiaotong Lu
Zachary Andres Moran
Molly Joy Nochimson
Carly Samantha Payne
Jonathan Alan Sanchez
Laura Stern
Eleanor Streitwieser
Makenzie Vandenbark
Allyson Vaughan
Sophia Jane Vilim
DJ Valenzuela Villamin
Remy Votta
Hannah Peishan Xie
Ruoqi Xiong
Youning Zhao
Bethany Angelique Baskerville
Edith Rose Gabrielle Bradley
Taylor Alondra Castro
Crystal Chen
Gavin Henry
Doris Huang
Peiyi Jiang
Kuiyu Lin
Jiatong Liu
Trainor Macrone
Victoria Jean McGivern
Sara Elizabeth Mitchell
Alexandra Lynne Staszeski
Yihang Yang
International Education Development
Ruby Rungi Bantariza
Nicole Bedoya
Han Chang
Senyao Dai
Rima Abdlrahim Kamel
Simon Kukeye
Lihui Lin
Jessica Mejia
Bona Lee Aglasi Sungay
Svetlana Vetkhova
Ellen Wu
Ye Yuan
Fatima Fatima
Reika Fujii
Fiona Gao
James Gazawie
Glory Alexandria Goneka
Rameen Iftikhar
Akanksha Sunil Jumde
Chipiliro Kasiyamphanje
Eunbin Kim
Kiyeon Lee
Chengcheng Liu
Tolulope Kaosarat Olasewere
Yoon Shin
Xueshen Shi
Ruviel Sibaja Ramirez
Logan P Haworth
School Leadership
David Dennison Belsky
Devika Bodas
Emily Glassford Bowditch
Brian Christopher Crowell
Jean Crowell
Margarita Druker
School Leadership (cont’d)
Caroline Coleman Handorf
Katherine Mary Kelleher
Lindsay Ann Leal
Shane Luis McBride
Martina Mcphail
Nabil Motunrayo David Odulate
Andy Ramirez
Laura Michaels Renard
Courtney Amanda Roach
Josh Ryan Shandera
Annabella Vizcardo
Philip Ian Weisgold
Leah Rose Wolf
Luciana Boone
Karen Carter
Gloria Clayton
Dominique Carmen DeSilva
Roderston Eugene
Nancy Griffin-Foreman
Miriam L Harris
Jisu Jeong
Dustin Q Johnson
Laura Ellen Layton
Addy Nelson
Tara Monique Pulley
Morgan Washington-Leslie
Natasha Peniel Willis
Hope Sherrelle Witherspoon
Cybil Rose Yakira
Cassandra Joanne St. Vil
Keisha N Howard
Jenna Rose Fell
Excellence in Teaching Award
Damani White-Lewis
Staff Recognition of Service Award
John Gamba
Peter Montesino
Rachel Dozier
Faculty Recognition of Service Award
Jenny Zapf
A. Brooks Bowden
Abby Reisman
The William E Arnold Award
Meruyert Bizhanova
GSE Student Award for Excellence in Strengthening our Community
Dandan (Sunny) Wu
The Laurie Wagman Award
Mayowa Fageyinbo
We invite you to join us at the Penn GSE Building on 3700 Walnut St for a post-ceremony reception. There will be shuttles taking guests from The Palestra to Penn GSE from 10:30-12:30 pm (shown in blue) and from Penn GSE to the Penn Museum Parking Garage from 12:30-1:30 pm (shown in red). The route is also walkable if you are willing and able!
