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Commencement Keynote Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients
In This Section
Commencement
FAQs
UVI Commencement
Honorary Recipients
2024 Honorary Degree Recipients
Theron Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Timothy Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Caroline F. Fawkes
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2023 Honorary Degree Recipients
Michael Eric Dyson, PH.D
Keynote Speaker
Edward Thomas Sr.
Orville E. Kean Campus
Clema Lewis
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2022 Honorary Degree Recipients
Robert M. Franklin, Jr., Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker
Marcella Nunez-Smith
Orville E. Kean Campus
Justa Encarnacion
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2021 Honorary Degree Recipients
Raphael Warnock
Keynote Speaker
Wilma Lewis
Orville E. Kean Campus
Alexandar Moorehead
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2020 Honorary Degree Recipients
Loretta Lynch, Esq.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Eugene Peterson, MD
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Hannibal Ware
Orville E. Kean Campus
2019 Honorary Degree Recipients
Bakari Sellers, Esq.
Keynote Speaker
Cornell Williams
Orville E. Kean Campus
Simon Jones-Hendrickson
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2018 Honorary Degree Recipients
Danny Glover
Keynote Speaker
Athneil “Addie” Ottley
Orville E.Kean Campus
Holland Redfield
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2017 Honorary Degree Recipients
Iyanla Vanzant
Keynote Speaker
Ruth E. Thomas
Orville E. Kean Campus
Stanley Jacobs
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Sonia Sotomayor
2016 Honorary Degree Recipients
Sir Hilary MacDonald Beckles
Keynote Speaker
Richard Schrader
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Ruth Moolenaar
Orville E. Kean Campus
2015 Honorary Degree Recipients
Marian Wright Edelman, JD
Keynote Speaker
Charles Wesley Turnbull
Orville E. Kean Campus
Ruth Harrigan Beagles
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2014 Honorary Degree Recipients
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker
Horace Clarke
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Ron deLugo
Orville E. Kean Campus
2013 Honorary Degree Recipients
Kweisi Mfume
Keynote Speaker
Terence Todman
Orville E. Kean Campus
George Tyson
Albert A. Sheen Campus
2012 Honorary Degree Recipients
Beverly Tatum, Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker
Donna Christensen, MD
Albert A. Sheen Campus
Alfred E. Heath, MD
Orville E. Kean Campus
2011 Honorary Degree Recipients
Johnetta B. Cole
Orville E. Kean Campus
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