2021 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY Saturday May 1, 2021 Welcome Dr. Carissa Slotterback Dean Address to Graduates Dr. Amanda Godley Vice Provost for Graduate Studies Presentation of Award Winners Dr. Ryan Grauer Faculty President Student Address Jillian Royal, MPA ’21 2020 Student Cabinet President Commencement Speech Betty Cruz, MPA ’11 Introduction of Graduates GSPIA Program Directors Messages from Alumni Ryan Timothy Peters, BA, BA Master of Public State University of New York at Oswego, Administration 2016; 2016 Olivia K.W. Phillips, BS Jemila Tosan Adoki, BS Carlow University, 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 Daniel W. Pieratt, BA Rafael Luiz Araujo-Lopes, BA Maryville University, 2015 University of Pittsburgh, 2017 Eric J. Raabe, BS Joseph Anthony Bistransky, BA Grove City College, 2018 College of William & Mary, 2019 Jasmin Dominque Randolph-Taylor, BA Adriana Diamonique Bowman, BA Howard University, 2015 University of South Carolina, 2018 Gabriella Danielle Reber, BS Zoë Catherine Burch, BA Florida State University, 2015 Carlow University, 2016 Jillian Denise Royal, BA Hui Ding, BA Montclair State University, 2019 Xiamen University, China, 2016 Yang Shen, BA Ziru Gao, BA Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Michigan State University, 2019 Finance, China, 2018 Xiaobo Geng, BA Aaron Alexander Sims, BA Wannan Medical College, China, 2017 Robert Morris University, 2018 Kimberly M. Goldstein, BA Brett Michael Stewart, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2016 Gettysburg College, 2018 Byron Timothy Goode Jr., BA Corrine M. Taylor, BS Wake Forest University, 2018 University of Pittsburgh, 2019 Aaron Gould, BA Falon Marie Weidman, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Wheeling Jesuit University, 2017 Rhea S. Henry, BA Elizabeth Aspen Wilkerson, BA University of South Florida, 2018 University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Elizabeth M. Hernandez-Pease, BS Mengdi Xu, BA Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, 2019 Yantai University, China, 2018 Koffi Kengbo, BA Daizong Xu, BE Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, 2018 University of Shanghai for Science and Hanwei Li, BA Technology, China, 2018 China University of Political Science and Law, Yaodeji Yang, BE China, 2017 University of Science and Technology Beijing, Yingzi Liu, BA China, 2019 Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Zhexuan Yu, BA Technology, China, 2018 Northwest University, China, 2019 Tianfang Ma, BA Yixuan Zang, BMgmt University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2017 Hebei University of Economics and Business, Cassidy A. Martin, BA China, 2019 University of Pittsburgh, 2017 Zhaoxin Zhang, BA Bijun Pan, BA Fudan University, China, 2019 United International College, China, 2017 Wenyu Zhao, BEcon Molly Elizabeth Penderville, BA Beijing Jiaotong University, China, 2019 University of North Carolina, 2014 Timofei Andreevich Kharisov, BA Master of Public and West Virginia University, 2019 International Affairs Alexandra N. Kremer, BS Cleveland State University, 2019 Tyler Allen Bienio, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2014 Cameron William Lumley, BA Washington & Jefferson College, 2019 Shannon Kathleen Boehm, BA Washington & Jefferson College, 2019 Sara Ann MacDougall, BA Mercyhurst University, 2019 Taylor Nicole Broshar, BA Central College, 2017 Gabrielle Christina Marotta, BA Moravian College, 2017 Gabrielle Christine Bryant, BA Florida State University, 2017 Joel T. Matticks, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2013 Kayla Elizabeth Conforti, BA Washington & Jefferson College, 2018 Ian Scott Maxwell, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2017 Amanda Janel Dawkins, BA, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2017 Anneliese M. McCarthy, BA West Virginia University, 2019 Sarah J. Downing, BA Hope College, 2018 Andrew Ronald Miller, BA Mercyhurst University, 2013 Zahra G. Ghannadian, BA San Diego State University, 2018 Nicholas Ryan Myers, BA University of Cincinnati, 2016 Paul Gibson, BA Temple University, 2012 Yeraldyn Lilian Maria Pacheco, BS Loyola Marymount University, 2019 Lucy Taylor Gloninger, BS Towson University, 2019 Spencer Stephen Pelak, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2015 Laura Rose Gooding, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2019 Mitchell George Powell, BS Bentley University, 2017 Natalia Y. Goodnow, BA, MA Ivanovo State University, Russia, 2008; Kent Gerald Quattro, BA, JD State University, 2012 Washington & Jefferson College, 2008; Duquesne University, 2012 Scott A. Gwyn, BA Wheeling Jesuit University, 2018 Wensislaus Noval Rumangun, BA Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia, 2017 Emily Noel Haglund, BA Washington & Jefferson College, 2019 Benjamin M. Saint-Onge, BA, BA Michigan State University, 2014; 2015 Chloe E. Harvey, BA La Roche University, 2019 Caelan Hidalgo Schick, BA Boston University, 2017 Melissa Lynn Hensch, BA University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Gabrielle M. Sinnott, BA 2019 Daemen College, 2019 Cameron John Hoffman, BA Alexandria Kelly Smith, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2019 University of Michigan, 2016 Maureen Petra Hossler, BA Yiyang Sun, BA Allegheny College, 2018 Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, China, 2019 Deborah Jennings, BA Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, 2017 Josephine Isabelle Syring, BS Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, 2018 Joshua Andrew Timko, BA Ihrar Muhammadi, BA James Madison University, 2019 Russell Sage College, 2016 Thomas L. Vielott, BS Alice Mahoro Ngamije, BSW Carnegie Mellon University, 2016 University of Central Florida, 2016 Sharonda Laquetta Watson, BS Paige Cullinan Nied, BA Kennesaw State University, 2017 University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Zachary Weinberg, BA Pelumi Daniel Olugbenga, BA DePaul University, 2011 Lagos State University, Nigeria, 2018 Chidinma Kelechi Onuoha, BA University of Maryland, 2018 Master of International Elizabeth A. Piccoli, BS Development University of Toronto, Canada, 2015 Moska Sonya Akhgar, BA Matthew Jacob Pribis, BS University of California, Irvine, 2017 Old Dominion University, 2015 Alyssa Marie Amendola, BS Alexander J. Romeo, BA, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2013 Saint Francis College, 2018 I Younan An, BS Samantha E. Sinn, BA Northern Illinois University, 2018 Bowling Green State University, 2018 Brian Edward Bayer, BA Mya D. Williams, BA John Carroll University, 2013 Washington & Jefferson College, 2018 Juliana Monteiro Bernardino, BA Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil, 2018 Gabriel P. Cirio, BA Master of Public Policy Grove City College, 2019 and Management Rosa Hassan De Ferrari, BA Carrie L.P. Anderson, BA, JD Temple University, 2013 Florida Atlantic University, 1998; University of Paul L. Donnelly, BA Miami, 2002 West Chester University of Pennsylvania, 2014 Ashley Lynne Anglesey, BA Thomas Joseph Ercoli, BS California State University, Sacramento, 2017 University of Alabama, 2016 Sandra Marie Barsotti, BA Christine N. Gameos, BA Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1987 University of Pittsburgh, 2017 James B. Bowman, BS Alexandria Greenholt, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2008 University of Pittsburgh, 2016 Daniel Camarda, BA Victoria Nguyen Hoang, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Villanova University, 2013 Kathleen Clawson, BA Rebecca Marie Holland, BA University of Pittsburgh, 1999 Saint Michael’s College, 2018 Chandra L. Colaresi, BA, MA Joshua J. Knupp, BA St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 1998; Indiana Allegheny College, 2017 University Bloomington, 2002 Kayla Elizabeth Kuziola, BA Sherman Culver, BA East Tennessee State University, 2014 University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Nora F. Lopez Cruz, BS Jamie Renee Cunningham, BS Universidad de Quintana Roo, Mexico, 2018 La Roche University, 2012 Jody M. Davin, BA Michelle Lynn McAndrew, BA, M.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009 La Roche University, 2011; Carlow University, Gregg Joseph Earley, BA 2013 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Peter R. McDevitt, BS Katie S. Ellison, BA California University of Pennsylvania, 2010 Westminster College, 2012 Mary Ann Michelle McKeague, BS Harry Richard Faulk, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2017 Point Park University, 2014 Eleanor L. Milarski, BA Robert J. Ferrainolo, BA Westminster College, 2002 University of Maryland University College, Paul Philip Moreau, BA 2012 University of Pittsburgh, 2010 Jodi L. Fowler, BS, MS Ryan G. Mulson, BA Allegheny College, 1993; University of Virginia, University of Pittsburgh, 2012 1997 Karla Nassuno Alcides, BA Anthony J. Gacek, BS Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Ohio University, 2002 Brazil, 1995 Claire Bramble Guth, BA Nazir Ahmad Noori, BA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pittsburgh, 2018 2006 Ronna Dee Peacock Pratt, BA, MBA Heather Lynn Hackett, BA University of Pittsburgh, 2001; Duquesne University of Pittsburgh, 2005 University, 2015 Robert F. Hamilton, BA Eric Thomas Poach, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2018 West Virginia University, 1981 Robert Lawrence Holler Jr., BA Denise Preston, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2002 Duquesne University, 2003 Upendra K. Kar, BS, MSc, PhD Andrew Carl Shull, BA Utkal University, India,1995; Jawaharial Nehru University of Pittsburgh, 2013 University, India,1998; All India Institute of Lisa M. Sipusic, BA Medical Sciences, India, 2009 Penn State Erie, the Behrend College Alan L. Katruska, BPhil Samuel Stack, BA University of Pittsburgh, 1995 University of Pittsburgh, 2007 Timothy S. Kim, BA Andrea C. Stanford, BS University of Pittsburgh, 2010 University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Heegon Lee, BA Michael Susick Jr, BS, MPH Seoul National University, South Korea, 2006 University of Pittsburgh, 2009; 2011 Soon Il Lee, BA Simone Natalia Thomson, BA Sungkyunkwan University, South