Daily News | A governor, Abbott Elementary star and mindfulness guru are among commencement speakers at Philly-area colleges
May 6: Lucy Rorke-Adams, a pediatric neuropathologist, who is an international expert on pediatric brain tumors and shaken baby syndrome. She formerly was president of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, its only female president.The Rev. Dr. Michael Battle, professor of church and society and director of the Desmond Tutu Center at General Theological Seminary in New York.
, chief design officer at Nike Inc.; pediatric surgeon Ala Stanford, founder of the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium and the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity at Penn State; and Tony B. Watlington Sr., superintendent of the Philadelphia School District.Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro, whose hometown is Dresher, Montgomery County, and who formerly served as attorney general.
Marie A. Bernard, a 1972 alumna who is the National Institute of Health’s chief officer for scientific workforce diversity.: Four students will speak: Rebekah Alstede, Kayla Leary, Anthony Rago and Jocelyn Bala Lopez: Valerie Arkoosh, acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She was appointed to the post by Gov. Shapiro and previously served on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.
La Salle University: Sister Mary Scullion has spent her life advocating for homeless people in the Philadelphia region andMoore College of Art & Design : Salamishah Tillet, a professor of creative writing and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her work at the New York Times Magazine for columns on race, genre and Black perspectives.: Kristin Prinn, founder and CEO of LUCY Outreach , a nonprofit helping at-risk teens in Camden.: Roosevelt Montás, a senior lecturer in American studies and English at Columbia University and director of its Freedom and Citizenship Program.
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