 Thank you, Bilal. Well, we are now at the moment that family and friends have been looking forward to all evening and our graduates are certainly ready to come to the stage to receive official congratulations on a job truly well done. This year the names will be read by David Morse. David is a lecturer in expository writing at the Ford School where he tutors graduate and undergraduate students. David is an outstanding teacher and a talented writer. He has a master's degree in fiction writing from the University of Michigan and his work has been published widely. His first play was performed at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in 2010. And I'm pleased now to introduce David to call the names of our graduating students. And I'd also like to invite the members of our platform party to step forward and help to congratulate our graduates. Good evening. To begin, I'll call our graduate earning a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy and Sociology. I'd like to welcome Mary Corcoran to the stage. Mary is a professor of political science, public policy, social work, and women's studies and she will hood our first graduate. Iran Leo, Iran's dissertation title is Family SES, Non-Cognitive Skills and Achievement Inequality in Children's Early Life Course. Iran will be taking a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University in China. Now we will welcome our graduates receiving a master's degree in Public Policy or Public Administration. Ali Abhazid, Krishnanu Ardi Aditamo, Yasuhisa Arai, Farhana Naz Arif, Maha Arshad, Michael Auerbach, Rachel Basile, Raymond Barrett, Bilal Bedouin, Alex Berger, Rhonda Bishop, Megan Bogarts, Afton Paris Branch, Michael Boudros, Ellie Cheson, Caitlin Marine Conway, Lindsey Kuhnen, Michael Correa, Therese Impe, Katherine Ann Eister, Kenny Fennell, Joshua Fleming, Eduardo Garcia, Arman Gorokian, John Guerrero, Mari Hashimoto, Maureen Higgins, Stephanie Hinchin, Maxwell Huntley, Essie Kokua Hutchful, Kosei Ishihwata, Kritika Jayraman, Tashana Joseph, Wook Kong, Ethan Kennedy, Jinwung Kim, Emily Robson Krishunas, Mark Croning, Maureen Lochner, Emily Lawton, Hyunho Lee, Terence Lee, Kelly Lovett, Nishant Malhotra, Michael Kevin Dabu Manansala, Farah Ladhan Mandich, Alexander Reed Mervak, Rakshah Mishra, Benjamin Morse, Kate Naranjo, Daniela Oliva, Melanie Pitkin, Curtis Powell, Emily Pramik, Joshua Rivera, Courtney Sanders, Mary Schlitt, Sundar Sharma, Kathleen Sly, Marlo Staples, Kazuki Tanaka, Tom Van Heeky, Naja Vandergriff, Nicholas Wallace, Molly Welch Marahar, Marissa Wetmore, Bradley Wintersteen, Harry Wolberg, Yu Chen Yang, Cage Yoda, Robert Yan, and now we welcome to the stage students receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy, Thomas Allen, Joe Ambrose, Alexa Baglione, Julie Barger, Jessica Bethlemy, James Henry Blatner, Eliza Boresh, Laura Broadkin, Neha Butch, Max Boltman, Desiree Chu, Dominic Klohlinger, Gabriela Dagostini, Sarah Dagger, Max Roland Davidson, Gabriel Dell, Zachary Dubin, Aaron Yusebi, Matthew Fidel, Genevieve Friedman, Alexandra George, Lauren Gold, Adele Goldberg, Jacob Haber, Mark Heider, Oliver Harfield, Ian Hecker, James Hendrickson, Thomas Hyslop, Noah Lisbon Holton Raphael, Hannah Louise Horobin, Jonathan Hyman, Meredith Joseph, Daniel Carr, Julie Katznelson, Ruby Kirby, Isaac Maycock, Pooja Nyer, Victoria Noble, Heidi Lynn Pater, Jacob Perlman, Daniel Rebun, Madeline Riley, Madeline Rose, Connor Rubin, Laura Seidman, Swathi Shanmugasantharam, Daniel Sharp, Joseph Shea, Carson Smith, India Solomon, Graham Stephens, Michael Sugarman, Kirtana Sundar, Maisie Sylvan, Shahar Steiner, Claire Taigman, Gregory Weinstock, Alexander White, Molly Williams, Mary Kate Winn, Samantha Wintner, Erin Woodruff, Emily Yerington, Peiyu Yu, Sarah Rose Zeev, Emily Zorfis. Graduates, please stand and face your guests in the audience. VA students, at this time please move the tassel on your mortarboard from the right to the left. And now I present to you the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Classes of 2017. Congratulations! Well I'll ask everyone to take their seats again for a moment. I'd like to thank all of you for coming today and I'll ask you please to remain in your seats until the platform party and then the class's exit. We have light refreshments in the lobby and I invite you to stay, take photographs and enjoy the company.