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Location
Rhode Island Convention Center, One Sabin St. Providence, RI
Start Date
June 2019
Description
Qualeasha Wood 19 PR, the Mendelson Award recipient who also delivered the undergraduate student address, celebrated her classmates for “standing together and raising our voices” about the need for greater equity on campus and thanked the community for hearing and responding to their call. “Our class has had the unique opportunity to not only fight for change but to see it begin to happen,” Wood said before asking graduates to set their sights on what’s next. “We are responsible for the change we want to see. So I ask you: ‘What do you see next?’”
Commencement 2019 Qualeasha Wood, Undergraduate Student Speaker
Rhode Island Convention Center, One Sabin St. Providence, RI
Qualeasha Wood 19 PR, the Mendelson Award recipient who also delivered the undergraduate student address, celebrated her classmates for “standing together and raising our voices” about the need for greater equity on campus and thanked the community for hearing and responding to their call. “Our class has had the unique opportunity to not only fight for change but to see it begin to happen,” Wood said before asking graduates to set their sights on what’s next. “We are responsible for the change we want to see. So I ask you: ‘What do you see next?’”