2020 CCAS Celebration Program - Master's

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SEAL OF T HE CO LU M B I AN CO L L E G E In 1819, the Reverend Luther Rice, Obadiah B. Brown, Spencer H. Cone, and Enoch Reynolds (all Baptist ministers) set in motion the reality of a college in the District.

These men raised the needed funds to purchase land in the nation’s capital, petitioned the Congress for a charter, and began organizing a college.

On February 9, 1821, President James Monroe signed the Act of Congress which created the College. By design of the Congress, a special provision was included which required that “persons of every religious denomination shall be capable of being elected Trustees; nor shall any person, either as President, Professor, Tutor or pupil, be refused admittance, or denied any of the privileges, immunities, or advantages thereof, for or on account of his sentiments in matters of religion.”

The original seal was designed by James Peale in 1821, at the time of the founding of the Columbian College. This is the seal that the graduates are wearing today as medals.

The seal features a Biblical lion lying down with a lamb and Greek text in an open book. The Greek translates to “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” In 1873, the name Columbian College was changed to Columbian University and the seal was changed slightly to reflect this. The Latin text around the outside was changed from “Columbiani Collegii” to “Universitatis Columbianae Sigillim.” In addition, some text was added to fill up the rest of the open book, since the Greek phrase only took up part of one page. In 1905, after the name changed to the George Washington University, the old seal was replaced by a completely new one.

The original Columbian College seal is currently on display in the Memorabilia Room of Gelman Library.

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L E TTER FROM T HE DEAN Congratulations, Graduates!

This day marks the beginning of a new and exciting journey. As a graduate of the Columbian College of the Arts and Sciences, you now carry with you the skills that our university’s namesake considered essential for responsible citizenship, skills that will help you be informed and effective global citizens. I encourage you to use your studies as a foundation for contributing to your communities and making a difference in whatever field you pursue.

As students of the liberal arts, you were driven by your desire to explore new ideas, to think broadly, be creative, ask questions and tackle new challenges. You took chances, combined your academic rigor and achievement with a spirit of exploration and adventure, and enhanced your intellectual and personal growth through GW’s unique

Paul J. Wahlbeck Interim Dean

connections across the nation’s capital and around the world.

As a member of our academic community, you worked side-by-side with worldrenowned scholars in classrooms, labs and field sites; you benefited from research grants that positioned you to explore exciting innovations; and you took full advantage of our partnerships with the world’s top research and cultural institutions—from the Library of Congress to the National Institutes of Health to the Smithsonian. Because of our location, you’ve also had a front-row seat to history and have experienced some truly special “only at GW” moments. I hope you appreciated your time here as much as we enjoyed working with you.

The relationships you established here will provide a strong network to keep you connected with this institution and the world beyond our campus. Wherever you go, be proud to call yourself a George Washington University graduate. It is a privileged group, one that will reward you both personally and professionally.

Please know that the GW community will always be open to you, wherever and however you choose to keep in touch. I encourage you stay connected through Facebook or Twitter and, whenever the opportunity arises, come back to Foggy Bottom to attend an alumni event, participate in a campus forum or visit a faculty member.

All my best to you as you embark on a future of promise and unlimited possibility!

Paul J. Wahlbeck Interim Dean Columbian College of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | 3

2020 CELEBRAT IO N S P E AK E R S Daniel H. Weiss, The Met’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for the overall leadership of the Museum, including establishing its key institutional, capital, and infrastructure priorities. He was appointed to the position in June 2017, after serving two years as the Museum’s President.

A scholar of art history and a seasoned leader of complex institutions, Weiss was previously President and Professor of Art History of Haverford College, and from 2005 to 2013 of Lafayette College. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in western medieval and Byzantine art and an MBA from Yale. Weiss earned a BA at the George Washington University and an MA in art history from Johns Hopkins, where he joined the art history faculty and in six years rose to full professor and then chair of the department. Three years later, he was made dean of John Hopkins’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Daniel H. Weiss, B.A. ’79

The author and editor of five books and numerous articles, Weiss has published and

President and Chief Executive Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Crusades, higher education, and American culture. Earlier in his career, Weiss spent

lectured widely on a variety of topics, including medieval and Byzantine art, the four years as a management consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton in New York.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Weiss is Vice Chair of the Board of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management, and a trustee of the Library of America, The Posse Foundation, and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.

Dr. Dugan received a Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies in 2005 from the University of Michigan, where she also earned her master’s degree in English.

Professor Dugan’s research focuses on the Renaissance, exploring the intersections of literature with histories of embodiment, the senses, animal studies, and material culture. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Karen Raber) of The Routledge Handbook to Shakespeare and Animals (forthcoming in early 2021). She is the author of numerous articles about smell, olfaction and sensory history and about apes and aping in the Renaissance. She is currently working on two book projects: a book on Shakespeare and the Senses and a project that explores the prehistory of primatology through the lens of Shakespeare’s plays.

Holly Dugan Associate Professor of English

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2020 DIST ING UIS HED S C H O L AR S LT Brendan Danner is graduating with a Master of Arts degree in the field of Leadership Education and Development (LEAD), an interdisciplinary program offered jointly by CCAS’s Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication and the Division of Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA).

A commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy, Brendan is currently assigned to the USNA as an instructor in a congressionally mandated leadership course that approximately 1200 midshipmen take every year. For his capstone project in the LEAD program, Brendan worked with a fellow student and a research advisor to develop three carefully researched, contemporary case studies to which students in the USNA’s moral reasoning course will now apply the moral theory they have learned in class.

Brendan’s research will make a significant and lasting contribution to the USNA’s mission to train professional and ethical military leaders and provides an example of the “impressive scholarship, indefatigable work ethic, and conspicuous commitment

Brendan Danner 2020 Distinguished Scholar

to the education and moral development of USNA students” that LEAD faculty members cited when nominating him for this award.

Sarah-Anne Gresham is graduating with a Master of Arts degree in the field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). A Fulbright student from Antigua and Barbuda, Sarah-Anne has completed a master’s thesis focused on postcolonial literature and feminist historiography that, according to the WGSS faculty members who nominated her for this award, employs “a truly original, interdisciplinary methodology” to address “sophisticated questions about voice, the archive, subaltern histories, and feminist storytelling.” Sarah-Anne’s scholarship is motivated by a political commitment to create lines of understanding across difference and to encourage others to see women of the Global South as authorities on their own lives and experiences. This commitment is also displayed in Sarah-Anne’s activism on behalf of women of color in Antigua and Barbuda as the co-founder of a feminist organization called Intersect, which has raised awareness about domestic violence, human trafficking, rape, and sexual harassment throughout the Caribbean, and in her

Sarah-Anne Gresham

advocacy for the legalization of abortion in Antigua and Barbuda.

2020 Distinguished Scholar

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DE PA RT MENTA L AWAR D S Art History Leite Prize for Outstanding Work by a 2nd-Year MA Student in Art History...................................................... Caroline Willauer Art Therapy The Katherine J. Williams and Prasad Family Multicultural Award.......................................... Jenna Cataldi, Olesya Van Dijck The Kwiatkowska Award .................................................................................................................... Casey Marshall, Bo Hundley Forensic Psychology Academic Excellence in Forensic Psychology . ............................................................................................................... Geoffrey Cross Geography Dorn C. McGrath Award ......................................................................................................................................... Mackenzie Allan Interior Architecture Graduate Studio Award ................................ ............................................................................................................... Jordan Jackson Museum Studies Nyerges and Gray Fellowship ................................................................................................................................... Nicole Hamilton Speech and Hearing Sciences The Diane Brewer Leadership Award .......... ............................................................................................... Sarah Hine, Sara Kaylan Women’s Studies Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Prize for Feminist Scholarship ................................................. Madeline Brown The “Service to the Community of Women” Award ......................................................................................... Sarah-Anne Gresham

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FAC ULTY MENTO RING AWAR D AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GRADUATE FACULTY MENTORING The Award for Excellence in Graduate Faculty Mentoring is given to a faculty member nominated by graduate students.

Mentoring and advising are crucial to the intellectual life and career trajectories of graduate students across the arts, sciences, and professions. A good mentor is a source of wisdom and expertise, an inspiring role model, a compassionate critic, a sounding board, an advocate, and a career counselor. The 2019-20 Award for Excellence in Graduate Faculty Mentoring is presented to Dr. Eiko Strader, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Sociology.

Dr. Strader joined the faculty of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences in the Fall of 2017. A sociologist who studies gender inequality and public policy, she is engaged in research that seeks to understand how and under what conditions gender becomes relevant in predicting life chances across different levels of geographical location. In studies focused on the regional wage effect of immigration, marriage and motherhood penalties in the U.S. military, and the job performance of ex-felons, she employs intersectionality-informed multilevel models to examine intersecting sources of inequality, such as race, ethnicity, parenthood, and class, while simultaneously analyzing labor market policies or conditions that impact gender inequality. Dr. Strader teaches graduate courses in policy analysis at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the graduate capstone seminar in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program, and a graduate course focused on women, welfare, and poverty that is offered jointly by the WGSS Program and the Department of Sociology. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Students speak highly of Dr. Strader’s work as an instructor, academic advisor, and “practical example of what the future may hold for us as scholars.” She is recognized as “passionate teacher” who “wants everyone to succeed and meet the degree requirements of the program” but who “also wants everyone to do their best individual work so that they will be set up for success later on.” One student remarks that Dr. Strader has a particular knack for “draw[ing] knowledge out of students, assisting when they need it, but also pushing us to work a little bit harder.”

Dr. Strader’s students are especially grateful for the care that she takes to monitor not only their academic progress but also their personal wellbeing. “I really enjoy the fact that she has asked me personal questions about myself and career interests,” one student reported, and “the fact that she starts each class asking if we are doing okay personally, acknowledging that this semester has been hard because of COVID-19 both academically, and in our personal lives,” is especially valued. In short, students report, “Dr. Strader goes above and beyond to offer counsel to her students….She steps up and makes herself available in a way other professors don’t.”

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2020 MA ST ER’S D E G R E E G R AD UAT E S AMERICAN STUDIES Michael Bangerter

Julie Noel Chamberlain

Zachary Andrew Brown

Brendan Taylor Hornbostel

Joseph Patrick LoyaconoBustos

Adam Cetorelli

Harry Allen Lewis

Shannon L. Papin

Olivia Brigette Sayah

ANATOMICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES Danielle Marie Abi-Najm

Colm Michael Mulvany

Jacob Van Parys

Kristen Elizabeth Armel

Ifunanya Jacqueline Nweke

Richard Samuel Wargowsky

Aloysius James Hora

Marissa Theresa Reilly

Alexa Williams

Inigo Chotirawe Acosta

Cody Fowler

Chen Li

Samuel Dewitt Pfister

Angelique Victoria Baehr

Joey L. Friedman

Xianfeng Luo

Madison Lynn Pullis

Dana I. Burton

Chloe Joy Jex

Francine E. Margolis

Sheel V. Singh

Kaitlyn Marie Cook

Emily Lew

Elizabeth Anne Monsen

Jason Alexander Vergne

ANTHROPOLOGY

APPLIED ECONOMICS Ruth Chidinma Akor

Zolzaya Dashnyam

Hamidreza Khoshro

Grady Renfrow

Nwaf Ibrahim M. Alkhodair

Ibrahima Diane

Taehyun Kim

Sanhanat Satetasakdasiri

Sara Ahmed M. Almadani

Ignatios Odiseas Draklellis

Haowen Lu

Jiajun Tian

Lindsay Lucia Aramayo Lipa

Emilie S. Ghaffari

Kara Mazachek

Siwei Wang

Matthew Atwell

Totyana Lashay Hill

Russell Moncrief

Luyao Zhang

Nicholas Stephen Berini

Haukur Asberg Hilmarsson

Joshua Michael Montiel

Aigerim Zhanibekova

Sungtae Cho

Patrick M. Hubbard

Matthew Zielinski

Keaton Elisabeth Cobble

Ilyas Iskakov

Pancea Hussien Helmy Hussien Motawi

Marissa Coloske

Denise M. Iusco

Cuong Viet Nguyen

APPLIED MATHEMATICS Jessa Ann Allard

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Jonathan R. Eby

Alexander Branas Montiel

2020 M A ST ER’S DEG RE E G R AD UAT E S ART HISTORY — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Isabella Ionni

Laila Michelle Karaman

ART THERAPY Samantha B. Ahwah

Alexandra Rose Dwight

Min Jung Kwak

Aubrey Rainbow

Kirsten Ashey

Casey Christine Frederick

Kimberly Lacorte

Ashley Rivera

Gina Astuto

Jenelle Hallaert

Elizabeth Lee

Caroline Ann Santilli

Tracey Tamae Ariga Zavala

Alexandra Kathryn Hill

Emily K. Lipson

Lillian Schwartz

Emily Claire Bensinger

Bo Hundley

Casey Jo Marshall

Amanda Christine Shaw

Kelsi Brownell Bobbitt

Kelly Christine Jacobs

Christlyn McCaskill

Kara Sheehan

Jenna Cataldi

Alyssa Renee Jones

Rachael Mecholsky

Sheba Sheikhai

Jennifer Christakos

Callen Rose Jones

Kathryn Mullins

Ellen Smithey

Carli Susanne Cortopassi

Olivia Peyton Kirkendall

Beth Oliver

Kiara Nicole Stewart

Lacey Elizabeth Davis

Bo Jensen Krzyminski

Katherine Elizabeth Pedrick

Olesya Van Dijck

BIOINFORMATICS AND MOLECULAR BIOCHEMISTRY June Jasmine Beshea

Chia-Han Lee

Blessing Njoku

Joshree Shrestha

Chongfeng Bi

Elizabeth Christine Lee

Ngozi Onyegbula

Sonia Beant Sidhu

Sitong Chen

Hongyu Liu

Natalie Marie Orsi

Jiayu Tan

Hanbyeol Choi

Hector Javier Matar, Jr.

Janisha Patel

Lin Yang

Evan J. Holmes

Deborah Micael

Prashant N. M.

Yubo Zhang

Helen Ibeawuchi

Fatimah Jamal Murtadha

Gabriella Natasha Rudy

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Alexander Altieri Ruebenstah

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES Mansi Sanjay Mehta

Allison M. Rusk

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BIOSTATISTICS Lauren Becker

Yixuan Li

Zhuoxin Long

Xinwei Wang

CHEMISTRY Diana Ainembabazi

Monica Flores

CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Xiayu Liu

Yuanyuan Zou

CLASSICAL ACTING — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Tro Shaw Allen

Michelle Horman

Jeffrey Raab

Rachael K. Small

Melissa Herion Bonilla

Allison Marie Husko

Charlotte Vaughn Raines

John Zoitos

John Michael Cox

Katherine McDonald

Joseph Edward Robinson

Natalie Cutcher

Grace Mix Myrick

Greta Boeringer Schoenberg

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Lilith Z. Antinori

Camille Elizabeth Hawkins

Sydney Louise Mills

Amy Grace Baker Sproul

Elizabeth Anne Bagioni

Margaret Hilton

Hannah Navarro

Molly Tulipan

Stephanie Blair Benson

Madeline Anne Huffstickler

Savannah R. O’Brien

Debanjoli Das

Roshan Javadian

Jordan L. Ohanesian

Jordan Brittany-Yvonne Watson

Jaime Nicole Fryburg

Jasmine Kaleka

Adam Jacob Rosen

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT Lauren Kaylee Dameron

Irwan Saputra

Ziyin Wang

Houhan Liu

Yunqian Shao

Quan Yuan

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Jing Zhao

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CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION Jailisse Acosta-Hernandez

Cheyanne Rae Crum

Kaidi Jin

Arryelle Thomas

Kelly F. Antrum

Jasmine Dahlia Gray

Brittney Denise Johnson

Dana Worthy

Lauren Delmina CollinsFluker

Kinda Haidar

Heather Morrisey

Nantiporn Kate Inchun

Amy Lynn Natishin

Tifenn Virginie Drouaud

Madeline Keith Goodell

Paige E. Mitstifer

Pilanthana Sai-ngam

Shushan Lili Galstyan

Amanda H. Kerbel

Rachel C. Morrison

Katarina E. Veevers-Carter

Renee Adonteng

Mary Elizabeth Gibbs

Irvin Clifton Mull, Jr.

Talal Saeed A Alzahrani

Eric Goldman

Nguyen Thao Nguyen

Guillermina Sutter Schneider

Shant Ayanian

William Henry Grieser

Nhung T. Nguyen

Limin Tan

Pierre Basseriba Bamba

Galen Elizabeth Hancock

Thanh Tuong Ngoc Nguyen

Henry Joseph Tappa

Michael John Bassett

Robert Mansour Harrison

Abhishek Nimmakayala

Elie Tetteh Tetteh-Wayoe

Joshua Bernstein

Pradip Hayu

William J. Noone

Junchi Tian

Kshitij Nagesh Bhat

Weining Hu

David Novy

Kimberly Thi Tran-Malan

Christian C. Braz

Bixuan Huang

Noah Thomas Olsen

Pedro Uria Rodriguez

Gaberial Nickolas Campese

Ishita Jain

Aluya Olufemi Omofuma

Vishnupriya Venkateswaran

Evan Carraway

Siqi Jiang

Daniel Vitale

Qianhui Cen

Lydia Tu Jin

Rajeev Sri Krishna Parvathaneni

Wen-Chuan Chang

Poornima Joshi

Lirong Peng

Varsha Waingankar

Jiarong Che

Leslie Juengst

Selvyn E. Perez

Jianing Wang

Nathan Val Justice

Sean Michael Pili

Xinning Wang Yilin Wang

Yiming Dong

Fathima Banu Kaja Kamaludeen

Xi Qian Rayhaan Ameer Rasheed

Yuyang Wang

Samrawit Asheber Feleke

Avijeet Kartikay

Peter Riley

Christian Mclain Wilkinson

Taisha Patricia Ferguson

Patrick Ryan Kinsey

Samantha Roberts

Angelica Lee Wiltz

Jessica Fogerty

Erin Graham Kreiling

Brian Wilson

Nelson Foster

Samuel Henry Kupfer

Daniela Margarita Schloeter Chumaceiro

Derek Charles Funk

Yuan Le

Benjamin Schmidt

Mihir Mukund Gadgil

Hilary Ligon

Joseph Tyler Schultz

Fernando Alberto Zambrano

Jyothi Satya Sahithi Ganji

Siyang Liu

Aaron Kali Skipper

Chaofu Zhang

Aaron Anderson Gauthier

Jason Russell Long

Jingshu Song

Naixin Zhu

Kanchan Ghimire

Hadsadong Luangxay

Daniel R. Stevens

Zhengting Zhu

CRIMINOLOGY

DATA SCIENCE

Jia Chen Joe Conran

Tejaswini Vuppu

Binbin Wu

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2020 MA ST ER’S D E G R E E G R AD UAT E S DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN HISTORY — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Majorie Clay

John Kingsley

Phyllis Amy Gerstell

Claire Morgan

Erin Gray Russell

ECONOMICS Jonah Roland Coste

Eiji Goto

Gargi Kamath

Feng Zhang

Eric Scott Dehus

Nathaniel James Harris

Friederike Karin Langowski

Yun Zhang

Ebad Ebadi

Federico Haslop

Kan Sun

John Glasfeld

Mohamad Zakaria Koubeissi

Victoria Nguyen

Ilana Goldstein

Xuewei Li

Taylor Michelle Patterson

ENGLISH Ben Streeter

ENVIRONMENTAL AND GREEN CHEMISTRY Charlotte Snyder

ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE POLICY — TRACHTENBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Raisa Kellen Roxas Barrera

Molly Lumsden

Matthew Ryan Sidler

Christopher Henderson

Mitali Mirle

Brooke Abigail Siegel

Madison Hertzog

Analies G Ross-Dyjak

Christina Jocelyn Sivulka

Preston Lann

Rachel Lindsay Saag

Tina Marie Tagliaferri

Russell Matthew Woolery

EXHIBITION DESIGN — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Veera Pfaffli

Sakiyna Washington

Brittany Nicole Waller

Sarah S. Wiener

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Anne Katherine Wilsey

2020 M A ST ER’S DEG RE E G R AD UAT E S FINE ARTS — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Joey Enriquez

Mei Mei

Rhe’a Ashley Roland

Yingying Yang

FORENSIC CHEMISTRY Madison Nicole Amann

Krysalyn Carrie Gerhardt

Marisa Carrie May

Carly Alexis Ploumen

Alexis B. Brown

Sydney Milan Jones

David Nunez Contreras

Jordan Leigh Tanen

Kearney Marie Foss

Kayla Camille Lapworth

David Charles Pavone

Taylor Marie Tipton

FORENSIC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Amanda Noelle Anna

Audrey Victoria Hoyle

Maniki Mathur

Raeghan N. Steelberg

Kristin McDaniel Brashear

Chloe Martha Kumpel

Carly Elizabeth Mills

Emily Grace Vogt

Yijian Cao

Jessica Ashley Loll

Caroline Elizabeth Robinson

Erin Weaver

Nicole Shirley Cusack

Laksh Malik

Emily Jo Spack

Leena Yoon

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Kara Michelle Adams

Sarah Evan

Nicole M. Lipka

Alana Joan Richardson

Samantha M. Allen

Zizhao Feng

Allison Lipp

Ellen Diane Ricks

Kathryn Leigh Allison

Jessica Ann-Louise Gallaway

Alexandra Macrini

Hannah Marie Anderson

Megan Nicole Magalhaes

Charlie Rachel Michelle Robinson

Grace Armstrong

Kristen Leigh Gwilt

Mariana Matano

Jivak T. Shah

Elena Bachrach

Allison Hancock

Olivia Mayer

Jalen D. Smith

Margaret C. Boldry

Wesley Michael Harris

Tyler Miles

Prerna Srinivasan

Faith Nicole Borland

Gianna Maria Hatch

Allyson Lee Miller

Hang Su

Brandee Leahann Browning

Alvin Ho

Sarah Maureen Miller

Leah M. Thornton

Abigail Melissa Brundage

Jessica Lynn Howell

Haley Marie Mutch

Elizabeth Ashley Turner

Alexis Bethany Childers

Allanah Hund

Jessica Ober

Bailey Elizabeth Urban

Rebecca Nicole Ciminelli

Ridhika Kartan

Susie Eunhee Park

David Weinraub

Jade Raisa Cohen

Sulleen Vanessa Kauffman

Danielle Marie Parker

Sarah Elizabeth Wenk

Geoffrey Cross

Jacob Shelton Kennington

Bethany Marie Parslow

Maeve E. Widmann

Patrick M. Cushing

Madelyn Ashley Kenworthy

Weston Zachary Phillips

Erin V. William

Halle Nicole Datko

Abby Lynn Kienle

Renee Nicole Plaza

Rachel Elizabeth Wolen

Christina Lee DeSimone

Christine Bomin Kim

Elaine Stephanie Rabelo

Maria Ann Wylie

Allison Justine Dong

Megan Marie Kirkpatrick

Madison Ayers Ramirez

Lauren Margaret Zurawski

Alexandra Sophia Edwards

Jacynda Ling Lee

Shuyang Ren

Anna Zwirn

Hannah Marie Lillie

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FORENSIC SCIENCES Bryce William Vandenbelt

GEOGRAPHY Mackenzie Kay Allan

Kieran B. Collinson

Christopher Andrew Hart

Tanni Sarker

Lucas Belury

Andrew Copenhaver

Min Jaegal

Liyuan Zhang

Steven Yuan-wei Chao

Carter Mathew Day

Alexander Michael

Alyssa Louise Bivins

Cole Edward Kucera

Kevin Stanley Nicholson

Julia Schiwal

Ikerighi Samuel David

Martin Gustav Margolis

Connor Thomas O’Prey

Evan Daniel Webb

Chelsea G. Davis

Courtland D. McEneny Ingraham

Nicolas Jean-David Russell

Michael Williams

HISTORY

Frank M. Fazio

Rohail Salman

HOMINID PALEOBIOLOGY Elizabeth Tapenes

HUMAN PALEOBIOLOGY Nicholas Burns

Ayla Riley-Horst

INTERACTION DESIGN — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Denise Renee Grant

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Jonathan Iadarola

Meghan Renee Lee

Edith A. Leiva

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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Sahar Al Shaibani

Martha Lisa Gould

Isabel Peace Moffly

Molly Walker

Bryn Kathleen Bassett

Jordan Blair Jackson

Ansley Kristina Nemirow

Patrick Jewell Walsh

Grace Serwah Boateng

Chelsea Clair Schuster

Stacey White

Courtney Neel Bradshaw

Suzannah Hope Vissering Klein

Kelsy Tai Dean

Yin-Ling Lee

Yesica Andreina Suarez

Hannah Bruce Gilbertson

Michele A Lowe

Lindsay Louise Sydness

Amira C. Siddiqi

Ashleigh Nichole Tuma

Chelsea Walsh Stake

ISLAMIC STUDIES Surdashi Bayanne

Chang Xu

LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT Erik McCoy Dahl

Ernest Halton

Melissa Sue Mocello

Mark Edward Webster

Brendan Danner

Hannah Mary Legler

Laith Douglas Shannon

Paul James Zimmerman

Lindsay Ann Grim

Isaac Justin Losee

Robert Shea

LEGAL INSTITUTIONS AND THEORY Alexandra V. Norsworthy

MATHEMATICS Anatoly Abramov

Hyeeun Jang

Xinyuan Chen

Conglong Xu

Ruimin Yan

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MEDIA AND STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION — SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS Barbara E. Alberts

Kevin Christopher Demille

Matthew Schwartz

Sarah Ellen Dicioccio

Elizabeth Louise Bateman Jessup

Kaitlyn Angrove Leah Marie Bacon

Natalie Ruth Edelstein

Jianwei Li, Jr.

David Andrew Beavers

Zhainagul Tolemissova

Saori Eto

Sophia Ray Meacham

Elizabeth I. Wehr

Yancey William Burns

Armin Haracic

Catherine Douglas Moran

Yi Yang

Daniel Stern Chaplik

Jada Moenay Harkins Andrews

Schuyler Palmer Nelson

Joshua Christian Yeadon

Ilana Creinin

Devika Singh

Seth Andrew Nieman

MOLECULAR MEDICINE Sonali Bahl

Eden Alemneh Dejene

MUSEUM STUDIES — CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN Sidney Ascher

Allison Dupuis

Mary Elizabeth Lesher

Amy Michelle Pollard

Lindsey Bauler

Jonathan Gabriel Edelman

Julia Liden

Rachel Elizabeth Rosenfeld

Victoria Beadle

Colin Gliniecki

Megan Little

Elizabeth Marie Routhier

Sara Levine Bhatia

Bailey Leann Glover

Charly Lollis

Sydney R. Sanderson

Sara Blad

Nicole B. Hamilton

Francesca Rose Luria

Matthew Joseph Sarnelli

Corrie Brady

Yujia Jing

Mary McCulla

Ryan Jay Shank

Mary Virginia Cadwell

Gregory Kelly

Virginia Hope Miroy

Sheridan Sweitzer Small

Raymond Cwiklinski

Kayla Kraft

Rachel Erin Moore

Allaire Paige Stritzinger

Erik D’Aguanno

Cynthia Kurtz

Shiori A. Oki

Sydney Elizabeth Thatcher

Amanda Jane Davis

Veronica Marie La Du

Robert William Pfeiffer

George Quinten Tillery

Melissa Isabel Diaz

Sarah Grace Ledoux

Rachel Marie Poe

NEW MEDIA PHOTOJOURNALISM Pamarthy Akash

Xueying Chang

Eric Lee

Shane Bahn

Yu-Jing Huang

Savannah McDonough

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Wenxuan Wu

2020 M A ST ER’S DEG RE E G R AD UAT E S

ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES Nour Alhussain Hamidaddin

Summer Gamal

Qingyun Pang

Najah Banks

Tianhui Ge

Dalton F. Provost

Kimberly Bianco

Alexandra Christine Hire

Darrick Samuelsen

Giselle Delgado Marin

Suzanne Shelton McGuire

Emily Smith

Nathaniel Bohn

Joseph Abraham Gurrola

Mary Perdue

Lillith Don

Tyler Mason Loveless

Linxi Zhao

PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL POLICY Saugat Bhattarai

Ashley Lynne Eedy

Curran Clee McSwigan

Elliot Swain

Erica Danielle Carlson

Amy Elizabeth Garlesky

Marissa N. DeShon

Alexandra H. Kudatzky

Alexander Christopher Reading

Christopher Raymond Touma

Alyson Barker

Lucia Illari

Hossein Niyazi

Sara Maria El Oud

Om Kant Jha

Brendan Michael O’Connor

Isabella Teresa Rosa Illari

John Grant Mitchell

Xin Wang

Mohammed Sulieman I. Alrushoodi

Chih-Min Hsu

Alexandra D. Kurtz

Benjamin Connor Seltz

Parker William Kelly

Nan Lyu

Ege Zeytun

Alexis Amelia Blanc

Siobhan Elspeth Kira Kirkland

Elizabeth Anne Meehan

PHYSICS

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Joseph M. Cerrone Aleksandr Fisher Lingyu Fu Carlos Jose Galina Perez

Alexander Rein Verschoor Kirss Ahmed Mohamed Elamir Kodouda

Shahryar Pasandideh Gholamali Khaldon Roukie Emily Mae Schraudenbach

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PSYCHOLOGY Cheriko Amour Boone

Casey Megan Hearing

Dorde Modrakovic

Nicholas Talisman

Kira Ocean Foley

Nicole Desario Hedrick

Benjamin E. Parchem

Mehrit Tekeste

Andrew A. Gepty

Lindsay A. Houck

Amrisha Prakash

Sruthi Vaylay

Charlotte J. Hagerman

Ahleah F. Miles

Daniel Ravid

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION — TRACHTENBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Teyobesta Tesfaye Abebu

Travis Ronald Gagnon

Daniel Sweet Moskowitz

Sebastian Solis

Shaheera Jalil Albasit

Maggie True Gallagher

Artisha Aakrita Naidu

Jinwoo Pak Son

Juliana Desiree Balla

Lauren Leigh Gomez

Roberto John Nava

Elantra A. Spencer

Kendall Anna Banks

Michael Alexander Greene

Nevasha Lanee Noble

Christopher Luis Stevenson

Sarah Rowe Barrie

Shawn Gregor

Martin John Ordinans

George J. Sullivan

Allison Benjamin

Chellese Carmen Grove

Sylvia Tabitha Umala Otieno

Isaac Berko

Monique Simmone Harvey

Jessica Nikitas Payton

Kaitlin McKinney SzulikWicker

John William Bertino

Shannon Kelly Hayes

Cynthia Patricia Pedemonte

Maria Camila Tapias Pinilla

Flannery Ryan Bethel

Jessica Frances Hegenbart

John Christopher Perrino

Brian A. Tarpley

Samantha Winfield Bopp

Michael Hubbard

Gabriel Diel Picinini

Maya Threatt

Erica Chen

Grace Iheke

Sabia Carly Prescott

Caitlyn N. Valadez

Kelsey Ann Clarke

Margaret Jacobi

Larisa Prisacari

Laurel Varnell

DaQuan-Lee Cook

William Virgil Jones

Thomas John Rachko, Jr.

Shanece Veal

Camille Coughlan

Kevin Conleth Kinsella

Travis Reginal

Roberto Velez Rodriguez

Makenzie Court

Aaron Charles Koppel

Mykelle Faith Richburg

Kirsten Amanda Wade

Teddy Dankwah

Michael Lawliss

Alivia Paden Roberts

Richard Mark Weiland, Jr.

Antonio Diaz Agosto

Geremiah Fletcher Lofton

Joshua Russell

Michael R. Weiner

Blessing Douglas

Anne Elizabeth Makielski

Aaron Sanborn

Jacqueline Sue Wheeler

Amy Catherine Dudas

Andrew Raebel Miller

Rachel Marie Shank

Adam Francis White

Maria Oluebube Ejikeme

Sail Spurgeon Min

Daniel Siegeltach

Lawrence F. Farrell III

Lauren Ashley Moeggenberg

Valerie Kristine Singer

Alexzandra H. Fogle

Matthew Smithhisler

PUBLIC POLICY — TRACHTENBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Dale John Abraham

Julia M. Barrett

Madeleine Anne Colaiezzi

Kami Marie Ehrich

Natalia L. Abrahams

Nora Catherine Blalock

Lauren Nicole Coughlin

Marissa Anne Esthimer

Jared Steven Anable

Alexis Brown

Melissa Nicole Diaz

Jae-Marie Ferdinand

Alexandre Bernard Noel Euro Aubard

Elizabeth Greenwood Chamberlin

Basia Catherine Dugan

Hope Elizabeth Ferrari

Dara Michele Duratinsky

Amanda Alexandra Fins

Timothy Wolf Barham

Dallas Edward Clemishire

Darryl Edwards

Sarah Ferguson Fitch

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2020 M A ST ER’S DEG RE E G R AD UAT E S PUBLIC POLICY — TRACHTENBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (continued) Boyd Townsend Gardner

Shelbe Klebs

Zachary Atticus Poss

Edward M. Stevenson

Kathleen Elizabeth Gayle

Raymond Thomas Lazott III

Lindsay Rapkin

Briana Rachel Taylor

Deon Glaser

Katherine Renee Lundie

Zane Matthew Rice

Andrew T. Gobbi

Vanessa Lopez

Eli Michael Richman

Alvan Banief D. MakoundiTchibinda

Liam John Goodwin

Chante Mayers-Barbot

Jolito Rivera

Katherine Thompson

Julia Pia Greenberg

Kasey Marie Memphis

Krystin Hope Thorson Roehl

Ana Cristina Villa

Samuel Flint Gunter

Matthew I. Miller

Adam Noah Rosenberg

Elisa Ann Stengel Walker

Simone Hall

Kellen Andrew Moore

Erika Michelle Ross

Anna Weckmuller

Michael Harris

Tzitzi Moran Carreno

Dannia Yousef Salem

Morgan Marie Wilderman

Kelli Harrison

Rebecca Morris

Tracie Sanchez

Mary Wong

Miranda C. Hines

David Andrew Schutt

Regina Haley Wright

Nicholas Hirsch

Eduard David Mosquera Porras, Sr.

Samantha Roxanne Sears

Leslie Rose Zelenko

Reeve G. Jacobus, III

Lena F. Nour

Hannah Seligman

Brianna Tyra Jones

Maya Pendleton

Jenna Leigh-Anne Shelton

Medha Joshi

John Stanley Plack

Vasundhara S. Kamath

Justin David Pollard

Tereese Alexus-Veronika Smith

Lala Kasimova

Valerie Porto

Ethan Steakley

Martina Guglielmone

Nicole Marie LeFort

Lauren Tenecia Walker

Nicole Dreispiel Juan

Kimberly Dinorah Tanner

Shuang Xu

SOCIOLOGY

SPEECH — LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Stephanie Altman

Alfred Gribble

Autumn McDaniel

Dagmar Vanessa Rodriguez

Jessica Chava Betaharon

Sarah G. Hine

Caitlin McDonnell

Deodata Helen Rogers

Maria C. Braiuca

Olivia Anne Hobson

Elizabeth Bragg Minor

Ashley Nicole Roling

Sindhura Chennupati

Maya Isaac Bernude Jesucat

Alexis Michelle Montgomery

Kayla Roseman

Tori Jenee Collins Catherine Coughlan

Taylor Johnson

Isabelle Marie Nejedlik

Allison Kirsten Dawn Sanchez

Corrinne Daly

Bridget Mary Joyce

Kiley Anne Nolan

Jennifer J. Shin

Mackenzie Ann Joyce

Jessica Merary Nolasco

Madelen Militza Simonds

Ann Lockard Douthat

Sara Reyes Kalyan

Ian Luke Nool

Issa Alexandra Smith

Chukusom Ekere

Carolyn Leigh Keeney

Mackenzie Elise Nunnally

Lydia Tova Sonenklar

Robyn Lachow

Maria Otalora Sugaste

Nikita Subnani

Emily Christina Fell

Allison M. Leasure

Kaitlynn Denai Plaskett

Madison Ashlee Sunderland

Stephanie Lynn Ferreira

Rachel M. Lipman

Angelica Marie Prieto

Yasmin Uddin

Sarah Rosel Fowler

Kelly Lutz

Nadia Zaki

Breanna Gardner

Gillian Lynch

Alexandra Christine Rainsdon

Victoria Lea Gasiorowski

Bailey Kiana Majeski

Amanda Diaz

Genesis Felizola

Emily Zander

Devin Rearer

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STATISTICS Guangji Bai

Yanbo Li

Yuxin Song

Ning Xie

Qinyu Chen

Jiachen Liu

Caishu Sun

Yilin Xiong

Yi Chen

Mengfei Liu

Xiaoshu Sun

Zijie Xu

Hyunjae Cho

Tianrui Liu

He Tang

Mengying Yan

Yufei Ding

Xuelin Liu

Yuze Tian

Mingchen Yan

Zhe Fan

Zhenlin Liu

John Thomas

Yutian Yan

Kang Fu

Xinyue Lu

Chenlu Wang

Fan Yang

Yaojie Fu

Jinyi Luo

Danhan Wang

Nan Yang

Yike Han

Shutong Luo

Qin Wang

Yuyang Zeng

Wanying Hou

Zhaowei Lyu

Ruiqi Wang

Jingwen Zhang

Kang Huang

Xin Ma

Rukang Wang

Junchi Zhang

Tian Jiang

Irene Molina Manrique

Siwen Wang

Lingwen Zhang

Caiyong Jin

Shaocong Peng

Ting Wang

Shixue Zhang

Wanting Jin

Meichen Qian

Yijin Wang

Wei Zhang

Yujia Jin

Yongchao Qiao

Zhiqiang Wang

Xiang Zhang

Li Lai

Zhengyi Qin

Zhu Wang

Xiaoyan Zhang

Ji Li

Sijie Ren

Yipeng Wei

Zhihua Zhang

Jingrong Li

Qing Shen

Di Wu

Jiashan Zhao

Liang Li

Qing Shi

Jianwei Wu

Lingmei Zhao

Man Li

Lydia Shia

Zhuoyi Wu

Yucheng Zhou

Peiyang Li

Lei Song

Li Xiao

WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES Madeline R. Brown

Sarah-Anne Phoebe Gresham

WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES-PUBLIC POLICY Arianna Darcy Bartlett

Emily Elizabeth Hitchner

Bria M. Johnson

Jenessa Iilana Cabak

Jennifer Louise Hyde

Joseanne Arielle Lopez

Gabriele Simbulan Simon

The celebration program is meant to be a guide to the ceremony. Although every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, the program is not an official record of an individual’s degree status. The Office of the Registrar of the university maintains the official list of all graduates.

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NATION A L CO UNCIL L E T T E R Dear Graduate: On behalf of the Columbian College National Council for the Arts and Sciences, I offer my congratulations on your significant achievement and welcome you to the George Washington University alumni community.

As an alumnus of this great institution, I can fully appreciate the excitement of this very special moment in your lives. You are now a member of a select group of accomplished individuals, bonded by a college for which you will forever be proudly associated. I encourage you to remain involved in the life of the university and become engaged in activities of interest to you. The opportunities to make a difference are endless—from becoming an active member in the Alumni Association and organizing

Benjamin Klubes, Esq., B.A. ’87 Chair, Columbian College National Council for the Arts and Sciences Partner, Buckley Sandler LLP

regional and local alumni events, to mentoring a student, offering services as a career advisor or guest lecturer, and providing philanthropic support.

My work as a volunteer in the National Council—which is comprised of alumni, parents, and friends who advise the Dean of the Columbian College—has been an incredibly rewarding experience for me. I hope you find similar avenues of engagement and have a role in advancing GW’s promise and potential.

Finally, we recognize your time here has required a high level of personal dedication and financial commitment. We are grateful for your investment and hopeful that your degree will lay the groundwork for future success in whatever career you choose to pursue.

Again, congratulations! It is both an honor and a pleasure to welcome you as a graduate of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

Sincerely,

Benjamin Klubes, Esq., B.A. ‘87 Chair, Columbian College National Council for the Arts and Sciences Partner, Buckley Sandler LLP

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