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Commencement Exercises College of Charleston University of Charleston, South Carolina FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 CISTERN YARD 4:00 P.M.: Graduate School; School of Humanities and Social Sciences; School of Professional Studies Prelude Processional Welcome ............................................................................................... Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Interim President The National Anthem ...........................................................................Regan T. Pelicano ’19 Remarks and Conferring of Honorary Degrees ...................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 and Demetria Noisette Clemons ’75 Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Address .................................................................................................Sonya Renee Houston ’86 Senior Producer, CNN NewsRoom Graduate Student Association President Address ................................Zachary T. Stephens Graduate Student Association President Student Government Association President Address ..........................Tripp L. Keeffe Student Government Association President Senior Class Representative Address ....................................................H. Alexandra Helfgott ’19 Senior Class Representative Alumni Address ....................................................................................Michael R. Renault ’95 Alumni Association President Presentation of Candidates for Master’s Degrees .................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Presentation of Diplomas .....................................................................Brian R. McGee Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Presentation of Candidates for Bachelor’s Degrees ..............................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Presentation of Diplomas .....................................................................Brian R. McGee Conferring of Degrees ..........................................................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 The Alma Mater ....................................................................................Regan T. Pelicano ’19 Recessional Graduates and their guests are invited to departmental and school receptions immediately following the Commencement Exercises. MAY 2019 COMMENCEMENT 1 Commencement Exercises College of Charleston SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2019 CISTERN YARD 10:00 A.M.: School of the Arts; School of Business Prelude Processional Welcome ...............................................................................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Interim President The National Anthem ...........................................................................Tyler A. Bancroft ’19 Katherine Anne Kuckelman ’19 Lucy A. Mulkeen ’19 Michael S. Owens ’19 Omar Valencia ’19 Remarks and Conferring of Honorary Degrees ...................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 and Demetria Noisette Clemons ’75 Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Address ............................................................................................ Jody S. Gottlieb ’89 Chief Creative Officer & Executive Producer, RainStream Media Senior Class Representative Addresses .................................................Rodrick M. Bellamy ’19 Megan E. Stover ’19 Senior Class Representatives Alumni Address ....................................................................................Michael R. Renault ’95 Alumni Association President Presentation of Candidates for Bachelor’s Degrees ..............................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Presentation of Diplomas .....................................................................Brian R. McGee Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Conferring of Degrees ..........................................................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 The Alma Mater ....................................................................................Tyler A. Bancroft ’19 Katherine Anne Kuckelman ’19 Lucy A. Mulkeen ’19 Michael S. Owens ’19 Omar Valencia ’19 Recessional Graduates and their guests are invited to departmental and school receptions immediately following the Commencement Exercises. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON COMMENCEMENT 2 Commencement Exercises College of Charleston SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2019 CISTERN YARD 4:00 P.M.: School of Education, Health, and Human Performance; School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs; School of Sciences and Mathematics Prelude Processional Welcome ............................................................................................... Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Interim President The National Anthem ...........................................................................Harper D. Mobley Remarks and Conferring of Honorary Degrees ...................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 and Demetria Noisette Clemons ’75 Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Address .................................................................................................Ebony Jade Hilton, M.D. ’04 Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Student Government Association President Address ..........................Tripp L. Keeffe Student Government Association President Senior Class Representative Address ....................................................Danya J. Firestone ’19 Senior Class Representative Alumni Address ....................................................................................Michael R. Renault ’95 Alumni Association President Presentation of Candidates for Bachelor’s Degrees ..............................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 Presentation of Diplomas .....................................................................Brian R. McGee Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Conferring of Degrees ..........................................................................Stephen C. Osborne ’73 The Alma Mater ....................................................................................Harper D. Mobley Recessional Graduates and their guests are invited to departmental and school receptions immediately following the Commencement Exercises. MAY 2019 COMMENCEMENT 3 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS FRIDAY SATURDAY MORNING SATURDAY AFTERNOON CEREMONY CEREMONY CEREMONY Sonya Renee Houston ’86 Jody S. Gottlieb ’89 Ebony Jade Hilton, M.D. ’04 For more than 20 years, Emmy Jody Gottlieb is an award-winning Ebony Jade Hilton, M.D., a Award–winning producer Sonya producer and media executive. Her career native of Little Africa, S.C., made Renee Houston has played a major as a storyteller has been devoted to using history in 2013 when she was role in CNN’s live coverage of some media as a force for positive change, with hired as an anesthesiologist at of the most significant breaking a focus on social justice, global health, the Medical University of South news stories in the United States conservation, the environment, religion, Carolina (MUSC), making her and around the world. As a producer, war and politics. As chief creative the first African American female writer and production team leader, officer and executive producer for the to hold the position since the she has collaborated with world-class Seattle-based Rainstream Media, she hospital opened in 1824. Hilton journalists and television anchors. oversees the creation, development and is currently practicing at the Currently Houston is senior producer production of nonfiction scripted and University of Virginia, where, in for CNN NewsRoom, based at the unscripted content. She is the co-creator her role as associate professor of network’s global headquarters in of Somebody Somewhere, a 2018 Spotify anesthesiology, she has focused Atlanta, Ga. In 2011, she was honored Editor’s Choice podcast. Previously, on exploring the issue of health with an Emmy Award from the Gottlieb was the head of production and disparities, particularly as it National Academy of Television Arts development for Microsoft co-founder pertains to race, and bridging the and Sciences for CNN’s coverage Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, gap between physicians and the of “Revolution in Egypt: President involved with network series, specials communities they serve. Her Mubarak Steps Down.” She has also and digital content including Animal works have led to her cofounding been recognized for her contribution Planet’s Ocean Warriors docuseries as GoodStock Consulting, a to CNN’s Emmy Award for coverage well as feature documentaries including consulting group that connects of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and Netflix’sThe Ivory Game, Amazon’s hospitals, businesses, nonprofit multiple Peabody Awards for coverage Midsummer in Newtown and CNN’s organizations and social service of U.S. presidential elections, Hurricane Unseen Enemy. Prior to that, Gottlieb agencies to produce measurable Katrina, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill served as the executive director of CNN health changes and equitable long- and the Arab Spring, as well as an Productions, the long-form programming term healthcare impact within Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University division of CNN Worldwide and Turner underserved communities. Her Award for CNN’s coverage of the Broadcasting System Inc., where she was efforts have been recognized by Southeast Asia tsunamis. In 2016, responsible for all aspects of production the National Medical Association, she was a fellow at the Journalist for long-form and documentary as well as by the National Law School at Loyola Law School programming for primetime newscasts Minority Quality Forum as one in Los Angeles. Houston previously and