PROCESSIONAL
FLAG AND BANNER BEARERS
Keaton Dickinson Eui Jin Song
DEGREE PROGRAM SIGN BEARERS
Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy and Management
Rebecca Brooks Smith
Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Planning and Development
David Flores Moctezuma
Doctor of Policy, Planning, and Development
Alejandro Alex Vargas Jr
Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development
Matthew Harband
Jennifer Chen
Master of Urban Planning
Dhruv Chakraverti
Luis Joshua Diaz Jacobo
Executive Master of Urban Planning
Ben Burns
Joshua Tuck
Master of Health Administration
Katherine Chung
Phong Doozy
Executive Master of Health Administration
Fariha Afzal
Automne Hasenberg
Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Stephanie Perez
Hafiza Elvira Nofitariani
Executive Master of Leadership
Michael Paul Benavente
Xochitl Morales
Master of Science in Public Policy Data Science
Bess Djavadi
Bingyan He
Master of Public Policy
Morgan Rose Stahr
Krissia Giron
Master of International Public Policy and Management
Yutong Pan
Adilzhan Talgatuly
Master of Public Administration
Michael Matthew Evangelos Watson
Haripriya Rachakonda
Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Planning
Timothy Labounko
Maria Francesca Barquera
Bachelor of Science in Public Policy
Colman Eunu Sun
Russell Griffen Bibaoco Agustin
Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Development
David Papazyan
Francesca Bennett
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Maria Rosario Jackson Chair, National Endowment for the Arts
For more than 25 years, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson’s work has focused on understanding and elevating arts, culture, and design as critical elements of healthy communities. Her work blends social science and artsand humanities-based approaches to comprehensive community revitalization, systems change, the dynamics of race and ethnicity, and the roles of arts and culture in communities. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate in December 2021, Dr. Jackson became the 13th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in January 2022. With this historic appointment, Dr. Jackson is the first African American and the first Mexican American woman to serve as chair of the NEA.
Dr. Jackson has a long career in strategic planning, policy research, and evaluation with philanthropy, government, and nonprofit organizations. She has served as an advisor on philanthropic programs and investments at national, regional, and local foundations.
Dr. Jackson is currently on leave from Arizona State University, where she is a tenured Institute Professor in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. In that role, she has led the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities and held an appointment in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
(2017-2022). For almost ten years, she also served as a senior advisor for Arts and Culture and Strategic Learning, Research and Evaluation at the Kresge Foundation.
For 18 years, Dr. Jackson worked at the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.based national public policy research organization. While there, she was a senior research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, and the founding director of the Urban Institute’s Culture, Creativity and Communities Program.
Dr. Jackson was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Barack Obama in 2012, on which she served until becoming chair of the NEA. Dr. Jackson was co-chair of the County of Los Angeles Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative and, most recently, served on the advisory boards of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Equity Center at the University of Virginia, the Strong, Prosperous and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC), and L.A. Commons, an arts intermediary organization focused on bridging communities through stories and creative practice. She served on the board of directors of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (The Music Center), the Association of Arts Administration Educators, and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.
A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a doctorate in urban planning, Dr. Jackson holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California. Dr. Jackson grew up in South Los Angeles, and spent time in her father’s home state of Ohio and her mother’s hometown of Mexico City. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Policy, Planning, and Development
John Romley, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Program Director
Juliet Ann Musso, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Graduate Programs
Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development
Richard K. Green, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Wilbur H. Smith III Department of Real Estate Development
Master of Urban Planning
Executive Master of Urban Planning
David Sloane, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Liz Falletta, M.Arch., MRED., Professor of Teaching and Vice Chair Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis
Master of Health Administration
Executive Master of Health Administration
Jason N. Doctor, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Department of Health Policy and Management
Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Regina Birdsell, M.S.W., Program Director Department of Public Policy and Management
Executive Master of Leadership
Carol Geffner, Ph.D., Professor of Practice (ret.) Department of Public Policy and Management
Master of Science in Public Policy Data Science Master of Public Policy
Mark Phillips, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Teaching and Program Director Department of Public Policy and Management
Master of International Public Policy and Management
Rym Kaki, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Teaching and Program Director Department of Public Policy and Management
Master of Public Administration
Juliet Ann Musso, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Graduate Programs Department of Public Policy and Management
Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Planning
David Sloane, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis
Bachelor of Science in Public Policy
Grace Bahng, Ph.D., Professor of Teaching and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Programs Department of Public Policy and Management
Bachelor of Science in Real Estate Development
Richard K. Green, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Wilbur H. Smith III Department of Real Estate Development
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
Heonuk Ha
Alison Holt
Noah Miller
Hilary Olson
Renzhi Shen
Rebecca Smith
Ann Song
Shengjia Xu
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Robert Binder
Alanna Coombes
Kurt Daum
Susan Dexter
David Flores Moctezuma
Clemens André Pilgram
Samuel Ross-Brown
Benjamin Toney
Bonnie Wang
DOCTOR OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT
Diana Dimapindan
Jennifer King
Matthew Lazari
Travis Norton
Christina Paddock
Hossein Pourmand
Holly Sotelo
Sara Straubel
Toper Taylor
Candace Teixeira
Jason Townsell
Alejandro Vargas
DOLLINGER MASTER OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Sam Atefyekta
Shea Allen Bartolino
Alex Borras-Arevalo
Daniel Abraham Brunelle
Luis Alberto Carmona
Victor Andres Casanova
Jennifer Chen
Albert Samuel Chu
Aaron Samuel Cohen
Charles Edward Cooper
Maxwell Daly Erickson
Martin Formico
John George
Jeffrey Tynan Hack
Matthew Perskie Harband
Michael Hernandez
Michael Jurado
Justin Brandon Kim
Daniel Ling
Justin Raymond Lininger
Sendi Madoshi
Sarah Paige McDowell
Aidan McNulty
Griffin Morgan
Craig Pilla
Cameron Ricks
Brennan Riddle
Benjamin Rifkin
Loren Smith
Chen Tao
Seth Townsend
Felix Vollrath
Ryan Foster Werner
MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING
Srilata Addepalli
Smyrna Caraveo
Paul Joseph Castellana
Dhruv Chakraverti
Nubes Chen
Nainika Tarini Dasegowda
Revati Sushant Dass
Qichen Di
Luis Joshua Diaz
Kristine Do
Riley Elise Erion
Celia I Escobar
Dina Alyce Furumoto
Gianna Furumoto
Shenghan Gao
Yue Han
Aidan Marie Holliday
Lufan Hu
Yan Huang
Samidhaa Kambli
Nicole Brooke Katz
Charlotte Samantha Kings
Youngseo Kweon
Jason Alan Leung
Lihan Li
Xing Liu
Yixiao Liu
Abigail Del Carmen Lopez
Yilin Lu
Gabriela Del Carmen Magana
Samantha Angela Malnati
Tyler Vincent Mathews
Angelyn Mendoza
Peter Monti
Kaili Kiyomi Morikawa
Amanda Ojeda
Jimin Park
Daria Vladimirovna Pugacheva
Bryanna Siguenza
Avery Tao
Riya Thampi
Kiersten Alexandria Turner
Qinhe Wang
Zeke Wapner
Anita Lawson Weaver
Whitney E. Weisberg
Kira Williams
Chase Bradley Wilson
Christopher J. Winkels
Sophia Wolens
Ruisi Xu
Hongxu Yan
Senator Marcus Daniel Zavala
Ke Zeng
Xiaolin Zhang
EXECUTIVE MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING
Clabon Renee Angeala
Conte Anne Marie
Burns Benjamin
Czarecki Blair
Tuck Joshua
Patterson Lynn Julia
Diallo Selly Malick
Alexander G. McKina
Browne Rahsaan
Griffin Robin
Martinez Rogelio
Juarez Timothy
Zhu Yuan
MASTER OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Amira Alexander
Natassja Alluin
Adelina Antonyan
Jocelyn Avila
Hannah Balleza
Estelle Cadrain
Katherine Chung
Evan Cortes
Bryce Dechert
Oksanna Dekeyan
Nilay Desai
Phong Do
Melisha Dogra
Michelle Duong
Danielle Farias
Rehanna Fikre
Angelo Garcia
Brandy Hitchcock
Bryan Ho
Talin Hovagimian
Kendall Jean
Allison Jones
Chitwant Kaur
Candice Jinsun Kim
Kayla Kim
Nina Kim
Jeehoon Kwon
Linda Lafarga
Tiana Le
Christopher Lin
Justin Low
Briana MacHhor
Lily MacHkalyan
Diana Maraach
Bhavini Modi
Bryan Munoz
Umesh Narayan
Nava Nassiri
Anthony Ngov
Benjamin Nguyen
Sandra Nguyen
Charles Ocampo Garcia
Jose Olivar
Zhuxuan Pan
Vivek Pokala
Ana Rodriguez Ibarra
Serena Santoro
Pauniz Shahmirizadeh
Dena Shokair
Allison Simmons
Zhenlin Song
Justin Stueland
Ria Grace Sumitro
Aditi Thakur
Asya Vardanyan
Janet Vargas
Nathan Wang
Katherine Wedekind
Elijah Williams
Gracie Williams
Seraly Yelibayev
EXECUTIVE MASTER OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Fariha Afzal
Luke Babbitt
Elina Baskina
Johanna Benavides
Bryce Blood
Michelle Chu
Arleen Cornejo
George Elliott
Karrin Engstrom
Maurice Flowers
Kyle Garrett
Daralin Granados
Nida Hamiduzzaman
Automne Hasenberg
Kelly Huynh
Jennifer Israel
Brenna Kajikawa
Craig Kim
May Lee
Ranganathan Madhavan
Adan Martinez
Kyle Maschhoff
Lori McCallum Bailey
Michelle Medel
Thomas Mitchell
Kim Nguyen
Seanna Omalley
Sabrina Orfalea
Salina Oro
Jay Parikh
Rabia Rehman
Bessie Rivera
Laura Saleem
Edith Samano Gutierrez
Teresa Sarte
Sandra Schultz
Hannah Soria
Kywana Stevenson
Arpine Torosyan
Patricia Tran
Wyndie Tse
Olga Valieva
Jocelin Vallavanatt
Julia Wang
Takui Yetenikyan
MASTER OF NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Vanessa Berg
Enio Chinca
Ernesto Corona
Samantha Paige Duzy
Kinady Lamb
Devon Claire McCann
Hafiza Elvira Nofitariani
Emma Pastore
Cong Peng
Stephanie Perez
Angellé Thomas
Sunni Won
EXECUTIVE MASTER OF LEADERSHIP
Michael Benavente
Jose Gonzalez
Gilbert Juarez
James McCoy
Xochitl Morales
Sara Padilla-Casillas
William Peralta
Barbara Roddy
Richard Wollin
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY DATA SCIENCE
Bess Amelia Djavadi
Bingyan He
Yuyao Huang
Rachel Nina Jackson
Alexander Eli Mermelstein
Xingyi Sun
Yicheng Tang
Guo Tian
Siman Wu
Yiming Zheng
MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY
Alma Atassi
Giselle Barragan
Celia Helen Bartel
Abigail Margaret Marie Bender
Junmin Byon
Ivy Cheung
Azam Dadabhoy
Nina Dubovitsky
Riley Elise Erion
Claudia Galliani
Aldo V. Garcia
Margaret Giovannetti
Krissia Lorena Giron
Alexis Taylor Goodly
Kyung Hyo Gu
Ahsan Habib Joy
Jaskiran Kaur
Mariana Rose Kramer de Luna
Stella Scali Krone
Anna Kulinka
Yuwei Liu
Zeqin Liu
Gabriela Del Carmen Magana
MASTER
Peter Monti
Jaxon John Mullinnix
Sirarpi Muradian
Mukund S. Nair
Jr. Salvador Olguin
Amanda Pantoja
Alexandra Andrea Perez
Emily Caitlyn Phillips
John Michael Powers
Markanday Ravi
Melissa Natalie Rivera
Erika Rogers
Simrndip Sandhu
Debarun Sarbabidya
Jennifer Nicole Smith
Morgan R. Stahr
Emily Thomas
Hector Vicente Velasquez
Lucy Elizabeth Warren
Annie Luella Wensley
Mingyang Yang
Jiarui You
Ariana Denise Zacarias
OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
Ali Alhedan
Sholpan Baimagambetova
Xintong Chen
Yongfei Chen
Yujun Chen
Yimeng Gao
Gama Hadiutama
Shu Hong
Jinwog Jeong
Ki Tea Kim
Seoyeon Kim
Sungwon Kim
Younghwan Kim
Jae Eun Lee
Jongmin Lee
Jung Yoon Lee
Seohyeon Lee
Huan Li
Ke-Hsin Li
Yiyang Li
Jie Li
Lian Liu
Yutong Pan
Nam Joo Park
Sijue Su
Michael Thompson
Peng Wan
Shihui Wang
Meixin Wang
Ruoshui Wang
Zihan Zhang
Zelong Zhao
Bohan Zhao
Lyu Zhong
MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Tangguh Adiwiguno
Henry Adkisson
Tatiana Agopoglu
Karla Aguilar
Kassandra Nayely Aguilera
Kristen Alesch
Sarah Alvarado
Jonathan Antonio
Haley Arata
Patrick Ben
Jessica Benitez
Olivia Bernheimer
Bruce Brackett
Emily Bradford
Mira Brown
Justin Buchert
Pietrina Cacioppo
Aaron Carruthers
Maria Selene Castillo
Jeremy Chang
Xin Chang
Yiqing Chen
Yongcheng Chen
Ziyi Chen
Sukwon Choi
Olga Corona De La Cruz
Sabrina Cox
Francesca D’Alessandro
Anna Denecke
Jessica Marie Depies
Brittney Desselle
Alexxiss Diaz
Yuchun Duan
Justin R. Englund
Edelberto Flores
Erika Flores
Dina Alyce Fusaye Furumoto
Whitten Gibson
Alberto Gordillo
Aneesah Grayson
Chance Groom
Katherine Guevarra
Jingjie Guo
Alana Gutkin
Grace Hagan Martin
Kymmia Haley
Harry Ramos Haessner
Ethan Heisler
Nia Hernandez
Emily Hinton
Daniel Hoornbeek
Haogui Huang
Ziyi Huang
Laura Hurtado
Talia Mihal Israel
Uira Jeong
Samantha Johnson
Talmage Jordan
Yasmin Kadir
Nicole Brooke Katz
Shradha Upadhayay KC
Jieun Kim
Jun Sung Kim
Yool Kim
Kyar Shan Li
Meixian Li
Tianyu Li
Yifan Li
Yitong Li
Miranda Lichtman
Carmen Linero Lopez
Karac Lindsey
Fangzhou Liu
Rong Liu
Shulun Liu
Yihong Lu
Mary MacAdam
Kenneth Madrigal
Deryck Aviyah Maioli
Alyssa Mia Martinez
Luis Mc Arthur
Delaney McMillen
Patricia Mendoza
Renee Musgrove
Brenda Mutuma
Paola Najera
Erica Nam
Kristina Narayan
Mark Nason
Taylor Joseph Nevels
Michael Angel Ocon
Antonio Daniel Okeke
Kaelynn Lianne Olmos
Josien Ooi
Valeria Orozco
Donovan Leonardo Orozco Preciado
Alexander Davidson Park
Megan Ann Patrick
Joseph Patterson
Lucero Perez
Matthew Peterson
Haripriya Rachakonda
Priya Ranganath
Tucker Noah Rivera
Nicolas Rodriguez
Melissa Elaine Romero
Rebecca Rosansky
Dayshalee Rosario Cruz
Amna Rustom
Jason Young Ryoo
Vanessa Giselle Salguero
Kimberly Jerenee Salguero Perez
Brenda Sanchez Murrillo
Luis Angel Sanchez
Luis Sanchez
Claudia Sandoval
Jivin Seward
Deeown Dominic Shaverdian
Menglong Shu
Yalan Shu
Komal Singh
Bangjun Sun
Qixuan Sun
Nichole Sutter
Gary Taylor
Lydia Thung
Miguel Alejandro Urbina
Christian Antonio Vasquez
Jennifer Venema
Valeria Marina Virgen
Miaoge Wang
Xinrui Wang
Xinye Wang
Ziwei Wang
Michael Watson
Huijing Weng
Michael Wodnick
Cheng Xu
Gayoul Yang
Pengyu Yang
Zhiqi Yuan
Nathalia Zavala Ramirez
Junhui Zhao
Zhanpeng Zhong
Chuanlei Zhou
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING
Derek Chang
Eric Chen
Gabriel De Luz
Julian Kaiser
Timothy Labounko
Christian Llamas
Jamal O’Guinn
Corey Reilly
Salvador Rodriguez
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY
Elias Abadi
Russell Agustin
Katherine Albano
Adam Allen
Jonathan Antonio
Melissa Ayala
Braelyn Baker
Victoria Brookings
Nayeli Castillo-Correa
Disha Chellani
Angela Chinn
Vincent Cisneros
Taylor Clanton
Zaid Diaz-Arias
Keaton Dickinson
Sachin Dubey
Mya Givan
Mikaela Golshani
Kevin Gomez
Melissa Gonzalez
Sicheng Guo
Cristen Haddad
Peter Henry
Stacey Joya
Nivea Krishnan
Toni Mankowitz
David Martinez Ibarra
Sidney Mayo
Ethan McNeil
Michaela Murphy
Antonio Okeke
Yehuda Potash
Rachel Rosenblatt
Eui Jin Song
Colman Sun
Araceli Talavera
Andrew Teagle
Owen Ticer
Cristofer Tzoc
Kennedy Vila
Ashley Wang
Jiayi Wang
Talia Wansikehian
Haoming Yang
Asemayet Zekaryas
Yixin Zhang
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Mitchell David Adams
Yasmin Khalid Akhtar
Keshia Lyn Albrecht
Madison Ashley Antoci
Aram Apanian
Andrew James Arth
Peter K. Baird
Michael Sarkis Balian
Maria Francesca Barquera
Pierson Scott Bender
Francesca Monique Bennett
Anna Leigh Boswell
Jessica Lauren Breitman
Ryan Hunter Breitman
Sam Brimberg
Maxwell Benson Bross
Rozalyn Anne Carlson
Hudson River Carter
Noah Christopher Cerdon
Sean Patrick Francis Choppin
Robert John Collins
Jacob Cameron Daneshgar
Brandon Davari
Andres Gerardus Dewerk
Maia Alina Domic
Talia Tal Elbaz
McKean Raulin Farnell
Ethan Scott Firestone
Shane Michael Foley
Ethan Ford
Finn McCool Duignan Gottlieb
Peter T. Grigorian
Monica Ramza Hamra
Scott Harris
Webb Baker Hayes
Joshua Hebroni
Connor Elliot Henderson
Bob Duy Hoang
Emily Kay Hovey
Harrison Kam
Pasha Kashani
Arie Nathaniel Kattan
Corbitt Kerr
Kristy Kim
Emily L. Kornguth
Carson Parker Kranz
Wen-Hsin Kuo
Daniel Aaron Lavian
Daniel Lee
Campbell Jane Lewis
Charles Oliver Littleworth
Laura Juliet Loeb
Natalya Fabiola Lozano
Julian Anthony Madrid
Veda Dinesh Mahbubani
Charlene Malekmehr
Melissa Esther Manesh
Johny Mansuryan
Ashley Kathleen Marasco
Nathan Maryamian
John B. McAdams
Cole Patrick McMahon
Benjamin Youssef Melamed
Safal Mengi
Trent Edward Charles Morgan
Taylor A. Mozart
Benazira Mussaibekova
Michael Nisani
Max Akelian Ocon
Nadia Dominique O’Reilly
Portia Marie Osuch
Clayton Michael Owens
Kyle Panarelli
David Arsenovich Papazyan
Shailen Patel
Hailie L. Person
Alex Timothy Pimentel
Gabriella Teresa Poli
Jake William Pollard
Joseph Garing Ragsdale
Alexandra Rahimi
Matthew Raymond Rhodes
Kaitlyn Sophia Roditis
Nathaniel Lucas Romero
Daymond Aaron Rosado Bedoya
Isabella Marie Ross
Craig Patrick Rossow
Morr Rublevich
Daniel Edward Ryan
Julia Elizabeth Shields
Mary Young Nan Shin
Yonatan Joseph Shoshan
Charles H. Shumway
Donicio Sethery Simmons
Harrison Alexander Smith
Cristina Isabel Sosa
Robert Anthony Spooner
Jeremiah Caadyn Stephen
Matthew Henry Park Stern
Tyler Ryan Stromsborg
Rohan Sunkureddi
Laurence Etcuban Tarquinio
Nathan Dean Keola Tennant
Christian Michael Thomas
Kyle Li-Shan Tien
Aine Rose Tighe
Luca Valentino Tomaro
Noah Torres
Sakurako Ura
Pedro Velasco
Jason S. Vott
Aidan Thomas Whitney
Christopher Michael Wood
Joshua Jack Wood
Kai Xiao
Jesse Arya Youdai
Grey Goldberg Zashin
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