Photo Collage of 10 UCLA College 2023 Graduates

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Photo Collage of 10 UCLA College 2023 Graduates


UCLA College | May 25, 2023

To honor the class of 2023, we asked 10 students from across the UCLA College to share a little wisdom they’ve learned. This video, introduced by UCLA College Senior Dean Miguel García-Garibay, features the following students:

Eduardo Jacques Martinez, geology
Jade Lacy, English (creative writing) with an Asian American studies minor
Nene Usim, human biology and society
Shiyu Ma, mathematics/economics and statistics and data science
Christopher Ikonomou, communication with a disability studies minor
Anushka Chakrabarti, mathematics/economics with a professional writing minor
Ramona Mukherji, English and public affairs
Antwan Adams, political science and communication
Angela Chen, mathematics of computation
Gillian Smith, history with an anthropology minor

Congratulations to these students and the entire UCLA College class of 2023!

Special thanks to Antwan Adams, Anushka Chakrabarti, Angela Chen, Christopher Ikonomou, Jade Lacy, Shiyu Ma, Eduardo Jacques Martinez, Ramona Mukherji, Gillian Smith and Nene Usim


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