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Commencement 2019
May 19, 2019
Keynote address delivered by Antonio Delgado ’99, U.S. Representative for New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Commencement 2018
May 20, 2018
Keynote address delivered by Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Commencement 2017
May 21, 2017
Keynote address delivered by Claudia Rankine, nationally renowned poet and recipient of the 2016 MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
Commencement 2016
May 15, 2016
Keynote address delivered by Robert D. Manfred Jr., P’16, commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Commencement 2015
May 17, 2014
Keynote address delivered by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American studies and the chair of the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.