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Some will serve communities in rural South Carolina, rural Oregon, and Alaska; others will expand on their military service to state and foreign policy work, and as a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. Others are a poultry veterinarian, a K-12 educator in Mexico and Latin America, and a portrait photographer. One hopes to shoot hoops professionally in Europe. Their commonality is on May 19th, they are marking Penn’s 269th Commencement as Class of 2025 graduates.
Penn Today has featured more than two dozen undergraduate and graduate profiles of the Class of 2025 from all 12 Schools. Each profile highlights the hard work and vision the students applied on the road to graduation, their plan for the future, and the ways Penn supported, and sometimes changed, their direction and goals.
After finishing a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics in the School of Arts & Sciences, Bryan Suh is becoming a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps, while Navy veteran and School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) graduate Alice Wu reflects on how the financial support from the Yellow Ribbon Program was essential to her education. Before Penn Carey Law and SP2 graduate came to Penn, Christina Bartzokis worked as a child protective services case worker in rural Oregon. Now, she’s headed to the Baton Rouge public defender’s office upon passing the bar. Wharton School and Perelman School of Medicine graduate Chip Chambers will use his knowledge of the American health care system along with his clinical training as a family physician in Greenwood, South Carolina.
Lorea Peterson Redondo, a graduate of Wharton and the Graduate School of Education hopes to bring lessons learned back to her hometown of Mexico City. Kendra Domotor “zigzagged” her way to Penn Dental Medicine, but in dentistry she could blend her love of science, teaching, and service. On Penn Medicine’s annual Match Day, Sydney Chambule matched at Penn for urology, another step on his journey to practice medicine in Mozambique, where he’s from. Dana Bubka, a graduate of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine with financial support from a One Health scholarship, will focus on poultry medicine.
School of Nursing graduate Charlotte Brown’s long-term goal is to move into a community health role in her home state of Alaska. Connor Nakamura, a history, urban studies, and creative writing graduate in SAS, found a legacy in Bayard Rustin that resonates today. Wharton graduate Stina Almqvist has her sights set on professional basketball in Europe. And SAS graduate Théa Kerekes found a powerful connection between portrait photography and sociology, uniting her studies and her visual eye.
Read more profiles of graduates from the Class of 2025.
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Charles Kane, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics at Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.
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