Commencement Speakers and Honorary Doctorate Recipients
At Commencement 2023, graduates received words of wisdom and encouragement from interior design media leaders Kate Kelly Smith and Newell Turner. Smith and Turner were conferred with Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in Interior Design degrees.
Student Speakers
Paulina Castillon Gomez (BFA) and Antonio Rico Harris II (MFA1) were selected by their peers to speak at Commencement.
Class of 2023
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Vrinda Agarwal *
Morgan Allem **
Yana Ashim **
Jennifer Holly Berger *
Madeleine Shea Blommer **
Juliette Kelleigh Devereaux *
Mia Truong Friedman *
Diana Jin Fuss **
Marisa Da Silva Giniger *
Grace Glass **
Megan Goethals **
Valerie Goldin-Remm *
Allison Hagen **
Dalya Hirt **
Kathleen Anne Kearns
Virginia Kestel **
Judit Klara Lang **
Dominic LeMieux
Maria Lorenc **
Rachelle Lowenthal *
Izabela Marino
Piper Oldfather **
Brigit Pinnell **
Kendall Greer Smith
Laurel Beth Smith *
Alexis Sundin *
Anna Catherine Ward *
* Honors ** High Honors
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Dahlia Awad *
Alley Bell
Elaine Browne *
Mia Carroll *
Sari Ackermann Cohen
Qadirah Copeland
Sean G. Desmond
Isabella Abigail Eastham *
Paulina Castillon Gomez **
Isabella Amber Ashley Kong Hamilton
Brianna Hartofelis *
Olivia Joyce Kane *
Lucie Kuljis *
Vincenza Lampon**
Diana Lawson **
Jiayao Li *
Rumbidzai Elizabeth Makava
Esther Nagel **
Keila Panchi **
Natalie Ramirez *
Jenna Roca *
Motomu Sakakibara **
Aaron Schechter **
Gabrielle Sheen
Krysten Smith *
Ransom Patrice Sutton *
Hsiu Wen Yang
Hyunjin Yang *
* Honors ** High Honors
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Shurouq Abdallah Al Jammal *
Atara Beller **
Jung-Chen Chih *
Min Ae Choi **
Elizabeth Collery **
Shelton Corbett
Julianne Grace Daly **
Victoria Diamond **
Charlotte Anne Doody **
Amelia Elliman
Paula Fastuca **
Alexandra Adelle Fisher **
Miranda Gelch **
Chloe Gillespie *
Felicia Gordon *
Xuanyu Guo
Antonio Rico Harris II
Marianela Imbachi
Shruti Kashikar **
Jordan Laney **
Chen-Wei Lin *
Hao Lu *
Laura Jane Quinlan Messersmith **
Elizabeth Anne O'Malley **
Natalia N. Popovitz **
Victoria Rietmann **
Katrina Fayetta Riley **
Kerry Regan Sackett *
Anna Schoettle *
Courtney Siegenfeld **
Stephanie Vivianna Striebe **
Melania Tosh **
Mengting Wu *
Wenfei Xu *
Wendi Yu
* Honors ** High Honors
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Mohamed Abdelaziz **
Mihika Pritish Chatterjee
Yanzhen Chen
Sarah Choudhary **
Pooja Meena Kamlesh
Juyeon Kim *
Rhythm Maheshwari *
Inkary Muenala
Marija Profaca **
Suman Rai *
Rani Ankush Ranaware
Nivedhitha Ravi **
* Honors ** High Honors
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Courtney Francis
Stephanie Jison
Mrinalini Kalla
Samuel Mikhail
Nirali Kanti Prajapati
Cynthia M. Torres Selmo
Thomas Simon
Soumya Undavalli
Zhi Yin Zhao
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Ariella Ahdut
Josseline Arevalo
Linda Stephania Diaz
Stefano Falez
Regyna-Marie Dominique Joab
Diploma Information for Graduates
Diplomas are not distributed during the Commencement ceremony and will be mailed to students within two months of the date of graduation. Diplomas are mailed to the address indicated in the Graduation Candidacy and Diploma Form. If you need to change the address where your diploma will be sent, please email registration@nysid.edu.
ALL BOOKS BORROWED FROM THE LIBRARY MUST BE RETURNED.
2023 BFA and MFA Thesis Projects and MPS Studio Projects Opening Receptions
