Congratulations Graduates!
You made it — and we couldn't be more proud of your accomplishments.
Spring 2026 Commencement Ceremony
Program
Procession
Welcome
Nicola Pitchford, President
Darryl Page, Chair, Board of Trustees
Commencement Address
Mary Jane Burke ’74
Conferral of Honorary Degree
upon Mary Jane Burke
Bestowed by
Nicola Pitchford, President
Darryl Page, Chair, Board of Trustees
Katie Lewis, Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Education
Teacher of the Year Awards
Presented by Mojgan Behmand, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Graduate Awards
Presented by Mojgan Behmand, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Christine Jia En Phang, School of Liberal Arts and Education
Youqi Zhang, Barowsky School of Business
Sara Ann Silberchatz, School of Health and Natural Sciences
Presentation of Candidates for Graduate Degrees
Mojgan Behmand, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty
Declaration of Conferral of Graduate Degrees
Nicola Pitchford, President
Undergraduate Awards
Presented by Paul Raccanello, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Caelyn Anderson, School of Liberal Arts and Education
Morgan Newkirk, Barowsky School of Business
Natalie Oyler, School of Health and Natural Sciences
Undergraduate Student Speaker
Vanessa Morales, Psychology Major, School of Liberal Arts and Education
Presentation of Candidates for Baccalaureate Degrees
Gigi Gokcek, Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education
Yung-Jae Lee, Dean, Barowsky School of Business
Kenneth Frost, Interrim Dean, School of Health and Natural Sciences
Declaration of Conferral of Baccalaureate Degrees
Nicola Pitchford, President
Alumni Association Welcome
Salvador Chávez '16, MSOT '17, President, Alumni Board of Directors
Benediction
Sr. Abby Newton, OP '76
Recessional
Undergraduate
Latin Honors: The following is the criteria used to determine latin honors.
Cum Laude(*): cumulative grade point average of 3.5
Magna Cum Laude(**): cumulative grade point average of 3.75
Summa Cum Laude(***): cumulative grade point average of 3.85
Departmental Honors (#): students who demonstrate superior performance in their major.
Bachelor of Arts
Brayan Aguilar Rodas
Fatima Amador
Boren Beecher*
James Bergeron***#
Darius Best
Amethyst Bowser
Avery Bravo
Rylee Buesing***#
Stanley Chou*
Julianne Cotterill*
Morgan Dougherty***#
Abraham Garcia
Natalie Gomez*
Valerie Gomez**#
Tristan Lawrence*
Kelissa Lee***#
Fatima Martinez-Gamez*
Braenwynne Matthews*#
Nicholas Medeiros
Gianella Mejia*
Sofia Nazario*
Morgan Newkirk***#
Manuel Ocaña Jr
Jorge Ochoa
Julisa Pena
Ana Rios
Anthony Rondon*#
Alex Santos Reyes**#
Cole Soper*
Lauren Springer
Angelika Stevens
Nanik Tagore***#
Jeckson Ulloa Romero
Deepalakshmi Vanaraja
Luke Vando
Adia Walker*#
Elle Wong**#
Bachelor of Science
Megan Clapinski**#
Monique Gayhart
Allen Stevens**#
Bachelor of Arts
Chandler Chen*#
Michael Gonzalez Lopez
Daisy Matul-Perez**#
Emily Parker*
Camille Rivers**
Daniel Salmeron Romo
Scott Wong*
Bachelor of Science
Alexis Abalos***#
Ashley Alarcon Martinez*
Laila Albutmeh**
Stephanie Alcala*
Isaiah Amoranto***#
Reanna Anderson
Halle Loren Angeles**
Elsa Atomsa*
Jenelle Balaoing**
Addisyn Barnum**#
Kassandra Bautista
Jordyn Beach*
Joshua Bennett*
Aneesha Biju***#
Trinity Billingsley***#
Bella Blue**#
Annabelle Burke*
Lynda Chaiyasith
Shannon Chloe Cheng**#
Madelen Cifuentes
Isobel Crosswhite***#
Vannesa Cruz-Suarez*
Gianna D Arezzo***
Omari Davis
Addecca Day**
Junela Dizon**
Morgan Dougherty***
Wendy Escobar
Madelyn Eugenio**
Siena Fairbanks**#
Tiffany Fong*
Joyce Ann Garcia***
Alexia Gerona***#
Andrewfelip-Lloyd Giron*
Malia Gomez
Michael Gonzalez Lopez
Natalie Haro
Keyasha Hasley
Callie Hernandez**
Kate Hershberger**
Angelina Hert*
Nancy Hu***#
Shaianne Kaye Intal*
Mellinda Ismael
Jorrell Kelsey
Maya Kern*
Kendal Kibanoff*
Ava Kinyon**
Hannah Lam Truong***
Liana Lerona**#
Jocelyn Lopez Maradiaga*
Jalydon Love
Brenda MacIel Rodriguez**
Karlyne Manuel*
Anneliese Maraj***
Anastasia Martinez**
Ken Masangya
Daisy Matul-Perez**#
Ashley McDonald*
Ellia McFarland***#
Marina Medina**
Leslie Mendez Perez
Jessica Moore***#
Caroline Morales*
Joselyn Navarro***#
Katieann Nguyen***#
Mervyn Njinyi
Valerie O'Hara***
Paolo Olimpiada*
Ayden Ottolini
Natalie Oyler*#
Nicoli Panelo
Madison Penick***#
Natalia Perseveranda
Andee Plaskett***#
Maria Paz Posadas***#
Cassidy Ravelo***#
Camille Rivers**
Daina Rodriguez*
Aindreana Romana*
Francis Salinas*
Alessandra Salise*
Isabel Savidge*
Marissa Sigel
Lilymae Sison*
Itzel Solano Gonzalez
Kate Tobola
Sophia Tuason
Sofia Ugalde*
Jaspal Uppal*
Natalia Vargas
Sofia Vega**#
Abigail Wilkins*
Bachelor of Arts
Noelia Alvarado Torres***
Caelyn Anderson***#
Erika Anderson***#
Cassandra Blevins***#
Heather Boehnke***
Sarah Brosseau***
Maya Brown
Michael Castillo*
Katherine Chavez
Alyssa Collaco
Dalton Conden***#
Zulma Conerly
Maria Contreras#
Astrid Craig***#
Kayli De Leon Rodas*
Adeda Desta*
Tanner Ennis***
Camille Esposito**
Neva Essex***
Sienna Fassett
Stephanie Fayette
Kenneth Garrett
Brandon Giron**
Aidan Gray**
Tiale Guerrero#
Sydney Gunnerson
Jason Halpern
Jaqueline Hurtado
Meike Ims***
Teanna Jimenez
Olivia Johnson***
Tieler Jones*
Travis Jones
Sulgi Kim de Leon*#
Emmanuelle Knox#
Jose Lain-Straus*
Tiffany Leung
Daniel Marmorstein*#
Jasra Mohamed Rabi***
Keyonee Neal
Taylor Pieri*#
Finnegan Pomeroy#
Fernanda Reyes Santos***
Karen Ripenburg#
James Salazar
Avery Schneider**
Helen Siguenza
Mia Souza
Lusi Tapasa
Lavinia Toetuu
Fatima Waldo Garcia*
Arin Wilson*
Nicholas Woodard
Kaitlynn Woolensack**
Kayla Zinkovich***#
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Freesia Bornstein***#
Alyssa Leek***#
Mira Sobkin*
Bachelor of Science
Sarah Gilchrist***
Madeline Hernandez
Rajwinder Kaur
Vanessa Morales*#
Maya Preciado
Thelma Ramirez***#
Valeria Ramirez
Graduate
Master of Science
Hang Gao
Master of Business Administration - China
Abdalaziz Alsafadi
Turki Alzahrani
Xiang An
Chen Chen
Yinlin Chen
Zhiqiang Chen
Ziyi Cheng
Yufei Ding
Yuanyuan Dong
Xin Fan
Yuanfang Fu
Ruiyun Gao
Shan He
Beiyong Huang
Linjuan Huang
Hui Ji
Yubing Jia
Hua Lan
Dan Li
Jing Liu
Yong Liu
Zhi Liu
Lin Ma
Jian Ma
Qiuliang Nie
Shuhan Qi
Xiaoyun Qiu
Badran Saghir
Diwen Shi
Ran Shi
Dewang Song
Debao Sun
Mengxiao Sun
Shulan Sun
Yanhua Sun
Chen Wang
Weifang Wang
Xin Wang
Yanan Wang
Jiaxin Wu
Aixia Yang
Rui Yang
Zheng Yang
Hui Yao
Abdulla Zabar Alharthi
Chenghao Zeng
Wenjuan Zhang
Yuxin Zhang
Zhi Zhang
Jinlu Zhao
Liang Zhou
Master of Science
Faisal Ahmad
Juliana Baumgartner
Morgan Blue
Kenzie Bramy
Sharon Caplan
Jenny Cardona
Victor Derycz
Adaisa Duenas Alvarez
Caroline Kawashima
Timothy Lea
Damian Montez
Josephine Peltz
Dinh Hieu Pham
Sara Silberschatz
Kyle Angelo Siy
Blake Underhill
Sonny Vang
Shane Vistalli-Alvarad
Steven Wrobel
Master of Arts
Kimberly Butts
Francesca Clarke
Clea Felien
Daniel Hernried
Margaret Kersting
Nicole Lea
Christianna Lenox
Lucas Magni
Muhammetberd Merdanov
Logan Myers
Christine Nwachuku
Stacy Poe
Zoe Richards
Master of Science
Marco Delgado
Mary Hayes
Eric Marcos
Ellen McMahon
Citlali Reyes Reyes
Shallon Santiago
Rodney Zinyemba
Master of Fine Arts
James Gunshinan
Daniel Mangru
Angelica Recierdo
Maayan Simon
Luke Van Amburg
Doctor of Philosophy
Celia Gagnon
Stacey Kamp
Christine Phang