“It’s international. It’s diverse. I could travel and go to school.”

Beautiful write-up by Vaness Chatterley published in the UMass Boston News on May 15, 2018 announcing me as 2018 Graduate Commencement Speaker, chosen to address approx. 1200 Master’s and PhD graduates, UMass Boston faculty and officials, in addition to several thousand family members and friends of the graduate body.

Read the article here: https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/for_graduate_commencement_student_speaker_the_world_is_his_stage