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Photo of degree conferral during Commencement 2021
Online Commencement and Degree Conferral Photos & Videos
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Special Ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 Photos & Video
Image of Kealoha Wong speaking at the Special Ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
Special Ceremony for the Classes of 2020 and 2021: Kealoha Wong ’99

Poet Laureate of Hawai‘i

“We are nobody/ and yet at the same time/ we are everything”

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Bryan Stevenson

Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative

"Commit to changing the world." 

View Bryan Stevenson's Commencement Address; Touchstone required to view

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